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together  with  an  account  of  its 

Centennial  ^nnitierstarp 
Celebration 

December  18—23,   1908 


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Prepared  by  Henry  W.  Jessup 
An   Elder   of   the   Church 

Under  direction   of  the 
Centennial   Committee 


1909 


Centennial  Committee 
Rev.  J.  Ross  Stevenson,  D.D. — Ex  Officio 


SILAS  B.  BROWNELL 
HENRY  B.  BARNES 
JOHN  W.  AUCHINCLOSS 
ROBERT  E.  BONNER 
JOHN  J.  McCOOK 
WARNER  M.  VAN  NORDEN 
GEORGE  B. AGNEW 
JAMES  TALCOTT 
GEORGE  TAYLOR 
EDWIN  J.  GILLIES 


EDGAR  S.  AUCHINCLOSS' 
ROBERT  W.  STUART 
DR.  SILAS  F.  HALLOCK 
ALFRED  E.  VONDERMHULL 
H.  EDWARDS  ROWLAND 
CHARLES  P.  BRITTON 
A.  GIFFORD  AGNEW 
GEORGE  F.  VIETOR 
CHARLES  B.  ALEXANDER 
JAMES  ANDERSON  HAWES 


Chairman: SrL\s  B.  Brownell 

Secretary:— J AMUS  Anderson  Hawes 

Treasurer:— A.  Gifford  Agnew 


Sub  Cow,mitiee  07i  Arrangemeiits 

Chairman:— "E.TtvfiN  J.  Gillies 
George  B.  Agnew 
George  Taylor 


Sub  Committee  07i  History  a7id  Publication 

Chairman: — Henry  B.  Barnes 

Charles  B.  Alexander 
James  Anderson  Hawes 


Sub  Comm.ittee  on  Fijiance 

Chairman:— iAMKS  Talcott 
A.  G.  Agnew 
Charles  P.  Brixton 


Copyright,  1909,  By 

FIFTH  AVENUE  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH 

New  York,  New  York 


FOREWORD. 

In  1907,  a  Committee,  consisting  of  the  Pastor  and 
Clerk,  with  power  to  select  and  appoint  a  General  Com- 
mittee from  the  congregation,  was  appointed  by  the  Ses- 
sion to  prepare  for  a  suitable  Centennial  Celebration  of 
the  founding  of  this  Church. 

On  the  28th  day  of  May,  1908,  at  a  meeting  of  the 
General  Committee,  the  members  of  which  are  named 
on  another  page,  Silas  B.  Brownell  was  elected  Chair- 
man. 

The  following  resolution  was  adopted : 

"That  the  Chairman  be  authorized  to  appoint  a  com- 
mittee, consisting  of  himself  and  five  other  members,  to 
determine  and  report  the  organization  of  this  Committee, 
the  mode  and  form  of  celebration,  and  to  appoint  Com- 
mittees of  arrangement,  of  finance,  and  of  history,  and 
to  enlarge  this  Committee  by  adding  members." 

Acting  under  the  above  resolution,  the  sub-committee 
reported,  at  a  later  meeting,  the  following  recommenda- 
tions : 

1.  That  the  Centennial  Celebration  be  held  on  Sunday, 
December  20th,  1908  (if  the  way  be  clear),  and  on  one 
or  more  week  days  following. 

2.  That  the  public  exercises  shall  include  The  Com- 
munion, which  shall  be  observed  on  the  afternoon  of  De- 
cember 20th,  appropriate  preaching  services  in  the  morn- 
ing and  evening  of  December  20th,  and  such  exercises  on 
one  or  more  ensuing  days  as  may  be  determined  by  the 
Committee  of  Arrangement. 

3.  That  a  historical  memorial  account  of  the  century 
of  the  Church  life  and  its  activities  and  of  the  celebra- 
tion be  published. 

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4-  That  three  standing  Committees  be  appointed  to 
carry  these  recommendations  into  effect,  each  Committee 
to  consist  of  three  members,  with  power  to  add  to  their 
numbers,  and  that  the  Rev.  Dr.  Stevenson  and  Chairman 
Silas  B.  Brownell  be  members  of  each  Committee,  ex 
officio. 

5.  That  a  permanent  Secretary  of  the  Centennial  Com- 
mittee be  appointed,  also  a  Treasurer. 

In  accordance  with  these  recommendations,  which 
were  approved  and  adopted,  the  exercises  were  held  as 
related  in  the  program  and  published  in  this  book. 


Historical  Sketch  and  Centennial 

Celebration  of  the 
Fifth  Avenue  Presbyterian  Church 


Insert  on  pages  noted 


Page  90 

ELDERS 

CHOSEN 

April  22,  1896 — 

Alexander  Maitland 
John  Inglis 
-  James  R.  Jessup 
Edward  F.  Hyde 

Page  91 

DEACONS 

CHOSEN 

April  22,  1896 — 

William  Irwin 

William  Sloane 

Samuel  S.  Auchincloss 
April  I,  1906 — 

Henry  R.  Danner 

Page  96 

TRUSTEES 
February  14,  1898— 
James  Talcott 


TABLE  OF  CONTENTS. 


Page 

Historical  Sketch 

7 

Calendar  of  Church  and  Mission  Activities          84 

Preaching  and  Teaching  Force 

87 

Pastors  and  Officers,  1808- 1908 

89 

Reports  of  Societies  and  Missions — 

Home  Bible  School        .... 

98 

Duane  Street  Mission    .... 

104 

Alexander  Chapel  ..... 

105 

Seventh  Avenue  Chapel 

108 

Young  People's  Association  . 

109 

John  Hall  Memorial  Chapel  . 

114 

Junior  Missionary  Society     . 

115 

Young  Women's  Missionary  Society     . 

117 

The  Men's  Society          .         . 

118 

The  Seaside  Home         .... 

120 

Ladies'  Auxiliary  ..... 

123 

The  Princeton  Seminary  Association     . 

127 

Chinese  Sunday  School 

129 

Woman's  Employment  Society 

131 

Loan  Relief  Association 

132 

Romeyn  Chapel 

132 

Program  and  Exercises      .... 

136 

Addresses — 

Edwin  F.  Hallenbeck,  D.  D. 

137 

J.  Ross  Stevenson,  D.  D.        .         .         14^ 

2,  150,  153 

A.  F.  Schauffler,  D.  D 

162 

Charles  L.  Thompson,  D.  D. 

170 

Mr.  Robert  E.  Speer      .... 

177 

Baxter  P.  Fullerton,  D.  D.     . 

186 

John  F.  Carson,  D.  D. 

189 

George  Alexander,  D.  D.       . 

193 

Francis  L.  Patton,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.    . 

195 

Maitland  Alexander,  D.  D.    . 

201 

Henry  S.  Coffin,  D.  D 

206 

A  Deliverance  on  Personal  Sanctificati 

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LIST  OF  ILLUSTRATIONS. 


Portraits  of  Pastors. 

John  Hall,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.  (in  1897) 

John  B.  Romeyn,  D.  D.  . 

Cyrus  Mason  . 

George  Potts,  D.  D. 

James  W.  Alexander,  D.  D 

Nathan  L.  Rice,  D,  D.   . 

John  Hall,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.  (in  1878 

George  T.  Purves,  D.  D.,  LL.  D. 

J.  Ross  Stevenson,  D.  D. 
Church  Buildings. 

Cedar  Street  Church 

Duane  Street  Church 

Fifth  Avenue  and  Nineteenth  Street  Church 

Fifth  Avenue  and  Fifty-fifth  Street  Church 

Alexander  Chapel 

Young  People's  Association  House 

John  Hall  Memorial  Chapel 

Sunbeam  Day  Nursery     . 

Romeyn  Chapel 


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Name: 

This  Church  has  had  four  names,  each  in  turn  gov- 
erned by  its  location.  Originally  incorporated  in  1808, 
under  the  name  of  "The  Presbyterian  Church  in  Cedar 
Street";  its  name  was  changed  by  a  special  act  (Laws 
1835,  Chapter  53)  to  "The  Presbyterian  Church  in  Du- 
ane  Street."  Again  the  name  was  changed  by  a  special 
act  (Laws  1852,  Chapter  408)  to  the  "Fifth  Avenue 
Church,  corner  of  Nineteenth  Street."  Finally,  upon  its 
removal  to  the  present  site,  in  1875,  it  assumed  its  pres- 
ent name,  "The  Fifth  Avenue  Presbyterian  Church,"  un- 
der an  order  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas. 

Scope  of  this  Sketch: 

The  examination  of  the  history  of  this  organization 
has  involved  a  study  of  records  of  the  Church  itself,  of 
the  Presbytery  of  New  York,  of  the  General  Assembly, 
besides  numerous  books  of  biography  and  of  church 
history.  As  will  appear  below,  the  growth  and  develop- 
ment of  this  Church  and  its  increase  in  usefulness  in  the 
Church  at  large  has  been  extraordinary,  whether  viewed 
from  the  standpoint  of  its  temporalities,  increasing  in 
value  from  less  than  $50,000  in  1808  to  nearly  $2,000,000 
in  1908;  or  from  that  of  its  benevolences,  from  a  few 
hundred  dollars,  in  its  early  years,  to  upwards  of  $360,- 
000  in  the  last  church  year,  or  from  that  of  its  spiritual 
strength  and  of  its  influence  in  the  community.  The 
task  has  been  an  inspiring  one.  At  every  stage  of  its 
history  its  pastors  and  its  leading  men  and  women  have 
been  identified  with  the  great  missionary  and  beneficent 
activities  of  the  community,  as  well  as  of  the  Church  at 
large.     Represented  to-day  on  the  Boards  of  a  score  of 

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charitable  societies  and  civic  org-anizations,  it  has  also 
members  on  several  Boards  of  the  Church,  on  the 
Women's  Boards,  on  the  Permanent  Judicial  Commis- 
sion, or  Supreme  Court  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  and 
on  Synodical  and  Presbyterial  Committees. 

So  from  its  first  years  of  life  its  activities  were  wide- 
spread. Its  first  pastor  was  first  Secretary  of  the  New 
York  Bible  Society,  of  which  such  members  of  our 
Church  as  Divie  Bethune,  Zechariah  Lewis  and  Elisha 
Coit  were  managers. 

Again,  when  the  American  Bible  Society  was  organ- 
ized, May  8,  1816,  Dr.  Romeyn  and  Dr.  Lyman  Beecher 
were  elected  its  secretaries,  and  William  C.  Mulligan  was 
a  charter  member.  And  the  third  annual  report,  in 
181 7,  records  the  gratification  of  the  managers  that  "a 
number  of  females  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  Cedar 
Street,  New  York,  have  made  the  Rev.  Dr.  Romeyn 
director  for  life."  And  among  the  life  members,  sub- 
scribers of  thirty  dollars  and  upwards,  are  named 
Hugh  Auchincloss,  Divie  Bethune,  Archibald  Grade, 
Thomas  Masters,  Elisha  Coit,  C.  G.  Smedburg,  as  well 
as  a  number  of  the  women  of  the  church,  as  Mrs.  Hugh 
Auchincloss,  Mrs.  Margaret  Beers. 

So  the  New  York  City  Mission  and  Tract  Society, 
founded  in  1827,  has  numbered  on  its  Board,  not  to  go 
back  to  the  early  days,  Dr.  John  Hall  and  Dr.  Steven- 
son, and  such  men  as  John  Sinclair,  Constant  A.  An- 
drews, John  W.  Auchincloss  and  Alexander  Maitland. 

As  to  Princeton  Seminary,  it  is  doubtful  whether  this 
Church  has  ever  been  without  a  representative  among 
either  its  directors  or  its  trustees.  It  would  prolong  this 
note  indefinitely  if  we  should  enumerate  our  represen- 
tatives on  the  Boards  of  the  American  Seamen's  Friend 
Society,  the  Boards  of  the  Church,  the  Hospitals  of  the 
city,  in  some  of  which  we  maintain  free  beds,  or  the 
various  civic  philanthrophies  of  this  great  city. 


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Origin  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  New  York  City: 

This  Church  was  organized  as  one  of  the  last  acts  of 
the  old  Presbytery  of  New  York,  in  the  year  before  the 
readjustment  of  the  new  Presbytery  as  constituted  by 
Synod,  October  5,  1809.  Prior  to  the  organization  of 
our  Church,  the  church  in  New  York  City  was  collegiate 
in  form,  and  had  three  buildings,  in  Wall  Street,  Beek- 
man  Street  and  Rutgers  Street.  Presbyterian  Church 
history  in  New  York  City  dates  back  to  1707,  when  the 
Rev.  Mr.  McKemie,  from  Virginia,  preached  the  first 
sermon  and  baptized  a  child  at  the  house  of  Mr.  William 
Jackson,  in  Pearl  Street,  near  the  Battery.  His  exercise 
of  ecclesiastical  authority  and  power  was  the  occasion  of 
his  being  at  once  proceeded  against,  as  was  pointed  out 
at  the  Quarter-Millennial  Anniversary  of  the  Reformed 
Protestant  Dutch  Church  in  November,  1878.  Dr. 
Howard  Crosby,  speaking  for  Presbyterianism,  re- 
marked : 

"We  boast  of  being  the  only  church  in  the  City  of 
New  York  that  began  its  career  amid  the  storm  of 
persecution,"  and  then  he  told  the  story  of  Mr.  Mc- 
Kemie's  arrest  at  the  instance  of  the  Established  Church, 
by  the  Colonial  Governor,  Lord  Cornbury,  who  was  an 
own  cousin  to  Queen  Anne. 

But  less  than  ten  years  later  the  first  Presbyterian 
minister  was  settled  in  New  York.  He  was  the  Rev. 
Mr.  Anderson,  who  preached  for  three  years  in  the  City 
Hall,  after  which  time  the  church  in  Wall  Street  was 
erected,  contributions  being  secured  locally,  and  also  in 
Connecticut  and  in  Scotland. 

Dr.  Gillette,  in  his  history  of  the  Presbyterian  Church, 
records  that  Dr.  Rodgers,  the  chief  minister  of  this  col- 
legiate Church,  re-entered  the  city  the  day  after  the 
British  evacuation,  and  found  both  his  Churches  ruined. 
The  "Brick"  Church  had  been  used  as  a  prison,  and  was 
unspeakably  foul  and  unfit  for  use,  and  the  interior  of 


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the  "Wall   Street"   Church,   which  had  been  converted 
into  a  British  hospital,  was  completely  destroyed. 

In  sharp  contrast  to  the  hostile  attitude  of  the  "Estab- 
lishment" so  many  years  before,  the  Presbyterians  were 
housed  temporarily  by  the  Diocese  of  New  York,  who 
permitted  them  to  use  the  Chapels  of  St.  Paul  and  St. 
George  until  their  churches  should  be  rebuilt.  This  is 
noted  here  because  many  years  later  this  very  Church, 
whose  history  we  are  recording,  purchased  St.  George's 
Chapel,  so  called,  and  turned  it  into  the  Romeyn  Mis- 
sion, which  was  so  long  maintained  on  Fourteenth 
Street. 

But  there  was  a  strong  party  in  this  collegiate  church 
Avhich  was  dissatisfied  with  the  use  of  Watts'  Psalms  and 
Hymns,  and,  moreover,  the  buildings  in  existence  were 
not  quite  adequate  to  accommodate  all  who  desired  to 
worship  in  the  Presbyterian  manner,  and  they  had  es- 
tablished themselves  in  Cedar  Street,  where  they  settled 
the  Rev.  John  Mason,  from  Scotland,  as  their  pastor, 
and  were  known  as  the  Scotch  Presbyterian  Church  in 
Cedar  Street.  They  were  for  a  time  ministered  to  by 
Jonathan  Edwards,  then  a  young  man  newly  ordained, 
later  a  Boanerges  of  our  denomination. 

In  the  year  1806,  a  number  of  those  connected  with 
the  collegiate  church,  dissatisfied  with  the  system  of  co- 
pastors,  decided,  with  the  approval  of  the  venerable  Dr. 
Rodgers,  to  erect  a  new  church  and  organize  a  new  con- 
gregation. 

Origin  of  our  Church: 

There  has  been  providentially  preserved  the  record  of 
our  Church's  life,  both  on  the  part  of  the  Session  and 
of  the  Trustees,  in  spite  of  the  great  conflagration  of 
December  16,  1835,  in  which  some  of  the  records  of  the 
Church  were  consumed  by  fire.  Mr.  Thomas  Masters, 
then  the  Stated  Clerk,  had  fortunately  preserved  his  du- 


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plicate  memoranda,  from  which,  under  the  supervision 
of  a  special  committee,  the  records  were  reconstructed. 
These  early  minutes,  both  of  the  Session  and  of  the 
Trustees,  are  full  of  indications  of  the  earnest,  faithful 
efforts  on  the  part  of  the  Church  officers  to  establish 
and  maintain  a  church  "according  to  the  Constitution  of 
the  Presbyterian  Church,"  and  this  laid  no  small  burden 
of  responsibility  and  labor  on  the  shoulders  of  the  early 
officers,  as  will  shortly  be  illustrated.  The  earliest  record 
reads  as  follows : 

"The  Presbytery  of  New  York,  at  their  session 
the  28th  day  of  June,  1808,  in  the  City  of  New 
York,  received  under  their  care  a  new  congregation 
in  said  city,  who  contemplated  worshiping  in  Cedar 
Street,  and  permitted  them  to  prosecute  a  call  on  the 
Rev.  John  B.  Romeyn,  of  the  Presbytery  of  Albany. 
He  having  accepted  of  said  call  and  being  installed 
pastor  of  this  New  Congregation,  on  the  9th  day  of 
November,  same  year,  called  a  Meeting  of  the  Com- 
municants of  said  Congregation  together  on  the  13th 
of  December  following.  The  Meeting  was  opened 
with  prayer,  after  which  the  Certificates  of  the  Com- 
municants were  read.  The  question  was  then  put, 
whether  they  were  willing  to  receive  each  other  as 
Brethren  and  Sisters  in  the  Lord  and  to  walk  with 
each  other  in  the  fellowship  of  the  Gospel,  under  the 
government  and  discipline  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  in  this  Country,  which  was  unanimously  an- 
swered in  the  affirmative.  The  following  are  the 
names  of  the  persons  who  thus  covenanted  with  each, 
other,  viz. :  Hugh  Auchincloss,  William  Cleveland, 
Samuel  Darling,  Thomas  Darling,  Elisha  Ely, 
George  Fitch,  William  Hall,  Jonathan  W.  Kellogg, 
Zechariah  Lewis,  Eliakim  Raymond,  Daniel  Smith, 
Solomon  Williams,  Oliver  Wolcott,  Mary  Carring- 
ton,  Betsey  Coit,  Nancy  Darling,  Eliza  Lewis,  Ann 


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Manwaring,  Hannah  Mudge,  Hannah  Neilson, 
Nancy  Otis,  Lydia  Richards,  Harriet  Romeyn,  Anna 
Todd,  Mary  Watson,  Betsey  Jackson.  The  Meet- 
ing was  concluded  with  prayer." 

This  action  of  the  Presbytery  had  been  preceded  by 
the  practical  work  of  securing  and  erecting  a  church 
building. 

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As  early  as  the  fifth  day  of  January,  1807,  a  number 
of  persons,  "attached  to  each  other  by  various  affinities," 
and  convinced  that  a  new  Presbyterian  Church  might  be 
sustained  in  this  city,  had  opened  a  subscription  for  that 
purpose,  and  appointed  a  building  committee,  with  full 
powers  to  erect  a  house  at  their  discretion,  in  Cedar 
Street,  between  Nassau  and  William  Streets,  and  sell 
the  pews  at  auction  (subject  to  a  yearly  assessment  for 
the  smpport  of  the  Gospel),  to  reimburse  the  subscribers. 

In  the  autumn  of  1808  the  pews  in  the  church  were 
sold  at  auction  for  a  sum  exceeding  the  cost  of  the  house 
and  grounds,  and  the  subscribers  were  paid,  with  in- 
terest. 

The  first  corporate  meeting  was  held  December  19th, 
at  the  house  of  worship,  at  which  the  pew-holders  or- 
ganized under  the  State  law  and  elected  trustees  of  the 
temporalities.  On  the  21st  of  December  the  male  com- 
municants from  the  list  above  given  met  and  elected 
elders  and  deacon's,  Zechariah  Lewis  and  William  Cleve- 
land were  elected  elders,  and  George  Fitch  deacon,  and 
they  were  duly  "set  apart"  to  their  sacred  offices  on  Jan- 
uary 1st,  1809,  and  met  as  a  session  January  3d,  at  the 
call  of  the  Moderator  for  their  first  meeting.  It  is  in- 
teresting to  note  that  the  male  communicants  alone  were 
allowed  to  vote  at  the  parish  meetings,  and  the  male 
members  and  pew-holders  at  the  Church  Corporate  meet- 
ings, for  a  long  period  of  our  history,  and  it  is  signifi- 
cant that  the  Presbyterian  digest  contains  no  deliverance 
of  the  Assembly  on  the  right  of  women  to  vote  prior 
to  the  minutes  of  1879,  when  it  was  decided  that  all 
members  of  the  Church  in  full  communion  have  the  right 
to  vote  in  the  election  of  pastor,  and,  in  1897,  that  all 
communicants  in  good  standing,  of  whatever  age  or  sex, 
are  thus  entitled.  At  the  installation  of  Dr.  Romeyn  it 
appears  from  the  records  of  the  Presbytery  that  Dr. 
Millerdoller  preached  the  sermon  from  the  text,  "Unto 
the  Jews  a  stumbling  block." 


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Gabriel  P.  Disosway,  A.  M.,  Corresponding  Member 
of  the  New  York  Historical  Society,  has  an  interesting 
account  in  his  "The  Earliest  Churches  of  New  York  and 
Its  Vicinity,"  from  which  we  take  the  liberty  of  quoting : 

"A  colony  from  the  Wall  Street  and  Brick  Presby- 
terian Churches  in  1807  founded  the  Cedar  Street 
Church,  Dr.  Rodgers  laying  the  corner-stone;  and  he 
delivered  the  opening  sermon.  A  subscription  toward 
the  new  undertaking  had  been  commenced  in  sums  from 
one  hundred  to  twelve  hundred  dollars,  and  soon 
amounted  to  forty  thousand,  with  which  the  lots  were 
purchased  and  the  edifice  erected.  It  was  deemed  expe- 
dient to  organize  this  congregation  independent  of  the 
three  other  Collegiate  Presbyterian  Churches  then  in 
New  York.  The  movement  was,  in  fact,  one  of  New 
England  men.  Elisha  Coit  and  Selah  Strong  were  the 
committee,  with  the  call  for  Dr.  Romeyn  to  take  charge 
of  the  newly  formed  Church.  Mr.  John  Stoutenberg 
also  carried  an  invitation  to  the  same  gentleman,  for 
him  to  accept  the  pulpits  of  the  Reformed  Collegiate 
Dutch  Churches;  but  Dr.  Romeyn  accepted  the  Presby- 
terian. On  the  eighth  of  November,  1808,  the  congre- 
gation was  organized,  with  twenty-eight  members ;  and 
on  the  same  day  the  Rev.  John  B.  Romeyn,  D.D.,  was 
installed  its  pastor.  A  large  society  soon  collected,  and 
he  continued  his  labors  until  his  death,  February  22, 
1825,  in  the  forty-eighth  year  of  his  age.     .     .     . 

"There  are  many  delightful  associations  connected  with 
the  'Old  Cedar  Street  Church.'  Perhaps  no  congrega- 
tion in  the  city  contained  more  useful  and  zealous  mem- 
bers. Zechariah  Lewis,  so  long  connected  with  the 
Commercial  Advertiser,  and  William  Cleveland,  were  its 
first  ruling  elders;  and  later,  Elisha  Coit,  William  Hall, 

Solomon  Williams,  Wilson,  with  Rufus  Nevins, 

were  deacons.  We  find  also  the  names  of  Jonathan 
Little,  Ives,  Fitch,  J.  E.  Caldwell,  and  Divie  Bethune, 
Markoe,  Masters,  Hugh  Auchincloss  and  Cyrenius  Beers 


jFifti)  atienue  presljptenan  Cfturcf)  15 

among  the  elders.  Few  churches  exhibited  so  many 
venerable  faces  in  its  aisles  and  pews  as  Old  Cedar 
Street  presented.  General  Ebenezer  Stevens,  with  a 
family  of  six  sons,  Colonel  Loomis,  Colonel  Varick, 
Archibald  Oracle,  Mr.  Walcott,  afterwards  the  governor 
of  Connecticut,  Benjamin  Strong,  Amasa  Jackson,  James 
and  William  Lovett,  William  Codman,  Derling,  Irvings, 
Griswolds,  Robert  Halliday,  Stephen  Whitney,  John  B.. 
Murray,  William  Halsted,  Hubbard,  Gordon  Buck,  Levi 
Coit,  that  most  excellent  and  useful  citizen,  Mr.  Aspin- 
wall,  &c.  There  was  quite  a  party  for  calling  Mr.  Hol- 
ley,  afterward  a  distinguished  preacher  among  the  Uni- 
tarians. Dr.  Romeyn  manifested  a  great  interest  in 
the  spiritual  welfare  of  children,  and  secured  their  affec- 
tion by  his  familiar  manner  of  calling  them  all  by  name.. 
His  catechetical  exercises  were  esteemed  among  his  most 
useful,  often  nearly  two  hundred  attending  the  classes,, 
from  five  and  six  years  of  age  to  eighteen.  In  hearing 
the  recitations  he  would  be  assisted  by  the  elders,  then 
adding  such  explanations  and  remarks  as  were  profitable 
to  all.  Dr.  Romeyn's  ministry  was  owned  and  blessed 
by  the  great  Head  of  the  Church,  and  many  heads  of 
families  among  our  prominent  citizens  professed  faith 
in  Christ  during  his  Christian  labors.  For  a  long  time 
from  twelve  to  sixteen  persons  were  added  to  the  con- 
gregation every  communion  day.  Many  came  by  let- 
ters from  other  churches;  and  among  such  the  excellent 
and  pious  Mrs.  Isabella  Graham,  Divie  Bethune  and 
wife,  and  Colonel  Richard  Varick,  &c.  Of  the  sixty- 
seven  persons  who  united  originally  in  the  subscriptions 
for  building  the  Cedar  Street  Church,  only  one  is  known 
to  be  living.  This  is  the  esteemed  and  venerable  William 
Hall,  now  in  his  eightieth  year,  and  residing  at  Cleveland,. 
Ohio.  He  has  been  greatly  blessed  in  his  earthly  pilgri- 
mage, having  two  sons  in  the  sacred  office  and  one 
daughter  the  wife  of  a  minister.  Of  the  twenty-eight 
who  founded  this  church,  only  two  were  living  a  few 


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months  ago,  Peletiah  Perit  and  Mr.  Hall;  but  the 
former,  that  excellent  citizen  and  faithful  Giristian,  has 
recently  gone  to  his  heavenly  mansion  and  rewards,  and 
the  venerable  Mr.  Hall  alone  is  left.  In  speaking  of 
this  fact  himself,  he  says:  'Our  fathers,  where  are 
they  ?    And  the  prophets,  do  they  live  forever  ?' " 

In  another  sketch  it  is  recorded  in  connection  with  Dr. 
Romeyn's  installation,  as  pastor: 

"The  Cedar  Street  Qiurch  was  a  new  enterprise,  al- 
most all  men  of  high  social  position  in  various  walks  of 
life,  many  of  them  New  England  men;  and  I  have  an 
idea  that  its  origin  was  in  some  way  connected  with 
politics,  as  I  recollect  it  used  to  be  called  'The  Federal 
Church,'  although  Dr.  Romeyn  was  never  a  political 
preacher." 

It  may  seem  a  small  thing  that  a  congregation  should 
thus  secede  because  of  the  form  in  which  God  was  wor- 
shiped in  song  in  the  sanctuary.  It  is  significant, 
therefore,  to  note  in  the  life  of  John  Mitchell  Mason, 
D.D.,  who  was  the  pastor  of  the  Murray  Street  Church, 
that  while  his  church  was  building  "the  infant  congre- 
gation to  which  he  ministered  held  their  meetings  for 
public  worship  in  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  Cedar 
Street But  though  this  arrangement  was  ex- 
ceedingly pleasant  to  him,  it  was  an  occasion  of  some 
subsequent  annoyance,  as  he  suffered  it  to  bring  him 
into  more  intimate  relations  with  Dr.  Romeyn's  Church 
than  were  thought  by  some  of  his  brethren  to  consist 
with  his  obligations  to  his  own  denomination  (namely, 
the  Associate  Reformed  Church),  not  only  joining  with 
them  in  the  ordinance  of  the  Lord's  Supper,  but  using 
what,  with  the  Associate  Reformed  Church,  was  an  un- 
authorized version  of  the  Psalms,"  and  the  biographer 
goes  on  to  show  that  this  alleged  delinquency  of  Dr. 
Mason  came  up  as  a  matter  of  formal  investigation  be- 
fore their  Synod  in  1811,  and  some  conciliatory  resolu- 
tion on  the  part  of  the  Synod  was  made  the  subject  of 


jfift!)  atjenue  pte06pterian  Cljurci)  17 

severe   animadversion  in   the   Reformed   Church,   espe- 
cially by  ministers  and  churches  out  West. 
The  First    Pastorate: 

John  Brodhead  Romeyn,  D.D.  (born  in  1777,  died 
1825),  was  a  remarkable  man.  His  life  is  fully  re- 
corded in  Sprague's  "Annals  of  the  American  Pulpit," 
volume  4,  page  215.  He  was  originally  destined,  we 
see  from  another  source,  to  the  bar,  and  perhaps  his 
legalistic  bent  not  only  accounts  for  much  in  the  history 
of  his  pastorate,  but  also  was  of  the  highest  value  to 
him  and  to  his  people  in  the  establishment  of  a  new 
church  under  a  form  of  government  still  in  many  re- 
spects in  the  developmental  stage.  He  studied  in  the 
academy  which  developed  into  Union  College;  was  ad- 
mitted at  the  age  of  seventeen  to  the  senior  class  in 
Columbia  College,  and  studied  theology  under  his  own 
venerable  father  and  John  H,  Livingston,  D.D,  Li- 
censed to  preach  in  1798,  at  the  age  of  21,  he  served 
pastorates  in  Rhinebeck  and  in  Albany  before  being 
called  to  New  York.  He  was  a  man  of  great  brilliancy, 
and,  though  his  health  was  feeble,  his  energy  was  pro- 
digious. From  his  private  diary  the  following  note  is 
taken,  showing  his  attitude  with  regard  to  the  call  from 
the  Cedar  Street  Church : 

"I  discouraged  the  idea;  but  they  made  out  the  call, 
and  prosecuted  it,  notwithstanding  that  discouragement. 
It  was  offered  to  me  because  they  knew  I  was  not  in 
good  health,  and  a  change  might  be  of  service.  The 
Cedar  Street  Church  bids  fair  to  be  large  and  respect- 
able ;  and,  from  the  character  of  the  subscribers,  a 
Gospel  ministry,  if  successful  among  them,  will  have 
the  most  salutary  effects  upon  a  large  portion  of  the 
inhabitants  of  the  city.  The  members  are  unanimous  in 
the  call  made  on  me.  My  wife's  health  will,  I  believe, 
be  benefited  by  sea  air.  My  mother  and  sister  approve 
of  a  removal.  These  considerations,  added  to  my  health, 
seem  to  make  it  my  duty  to  remove," 


i8  Centennial  Celelitation  of  tfte 

The  year  after  he  came  to  New  York,  Princeton  gave" 
him  the  degree  of  D.D.,  and  the  following  year  he  was 
elected  Moderator  of  the  General  Assembly  of  1810,  and 
we  find  in  the  minutes  of  that  Assembly  record  of  a 
great  revival  in  the  city. 

The  following  description  of  Dr.  Romeyn  is  taken 
from  a  letter  from  Rev.  Thomas  E.  Vermilye,  D.D., 
written  December  8,  1856: 

"In  person,  Dr.  Romeyn  was  about  the  medium  height, 
of  a  compact,  well-proportioned  frame,  rather  spare 
habit,  and  of  a  very  nervous  temperament,  which  showed 
itself  in  the  animation  of  his  fine,  intelligent  eye  and 
expressive  countenance,  in  ready  utterance,  and  in  grace- 
ful but  rapid  and  decisive  motions  of  the  body.  This 
ran  through  everything  he  did.  There  was  nothing  un- 
certain or  vacillating  in  his  manner;  no  hesitation  ap- 
parently in  his  mind ;  nothing  sluggish  or  slow  in  his 
composition.  His  opinions  were  clearly  conceived  and 
boldly  expressed.  His  purposes  were  promptly  formed 
and  executed  with  energy.  He  seemed  to  enter  with 
heart,  and  soul,  and  mind,  and  strength  into  whatever 
he  undertook :  literally,  what  he  found  to  do  he  did 
with  all  his  might.  This  was  so  in  and  out  of  the  pulpit. 
I  suppose  a  stranger  would  not  be  long  in  his  company 
without  saying  to  himself:  'This  man  has  all  his  facul- 
ties about  him  and  is  all  awake.'  And  yet  he  was  not  a 
bustler,  but  most  efficient  in  forming  and  executing  his 
plans.  He  was  a  cheerful  companion,  frank  and  unre- 
served, and  very  genial  with  the  young.  Yet  there  was 
no  frivolity  or  want  of  proper  dignity.  I  do  not  re- 
call a  single  jest  or  witticism  ascribed  to  him.  But  I 
remember  him,  at  the  period  of  his  greatest  success,  as 
earnest  and  even  intense  in  the  performance  of  his  ap- 
propriate duties,  seeming  to  feel  deeply  his  responsi- 
bilities, and,  as  much  as  any  man  I  ever  knew,  to  aim 
at  making  full  proof  of  his  ministry.  His  quick  step, 
downcast  eye,  and  deeply  serious,  absorbed  air,  as  he 


JOHN  B.  ROMEYN,    D.D. 


jrmt)  auenue  prcsftptetian  Cftuccj)  19 

passed  up  the  broad  aisle  and  took  his  position  in  the 
pulpit,  and  prepared  for  the  service,  illustrate  this  remark 
very  well,  and  were  perfectly  characteristic  of  the 
man  .... 

"Dr.  Romeyn  was  made,  however,  for  the  pulpit.  All 
his  natural  tastes  and  mental  training  seemed  to  have 
peculiar  reference  to  that  sphere.  As  a  preacher,  you 
know,  he  stood  eminent — in  some  respects  'primus  inter 
pares;  among  the  great  lights  our  city  could  boast  at 
that  day.  And  in  Mason,  McLeod,  Millerdorfer,  and 
others,  it  then  enjoyed  a  ministry  rarely  equaled,  and 
perhaps  never  surpassed.  The  substance  of  his  preach- 
ing was  sound,  edifying  Gospel  truth;  although  he  was 
very  apt  to  seize  on  passing  events,  and  turn  them  with 
very  great  effect  to  a  spiritual  use.  His  sermons  were 
usually  well  arranged  and  well  expressed,  as  was  requi- 
site to  suit  the  taste  of  one  of  the  most  intelligent  and 
refined  congregations  in  the  country.  But  there  was  no 
subtle  process  of  reasoning:  and  what  was  singular, 
when  you  consider  the  marked  effects  of  his  minis- 
trations, he  dealt  very  sparingly  in  figures  of  speech  or 
fine  writing.  There  were  few  delicate  touches  of  fancy, 
or  bold  flights  of  imagination :  there  was  no  splendid 
diction  nor  carefully  wrought  and  sustained  rhetoric. 
In  fact,  he  was  very  little  of  a  rhetorican.  But  there 
was  most  momentous  truth,  and  there  was  life  and 
vivacity,  pathos  and  downright  energy,  and  perfect 
naturalness  and  sincerity,  which  gave  the  preacher  the 
victory,  and  made  him,  what  he  was,  for  several  years, 
to  say  the  least,  not  inferior  in  popularity  and  success  to 
any  of  his  compeers.  His  ordinary  animation  and  his 
sweet,  full,  flexible  voice,  though  managed  with  no  art, 
were  always  pleasant.  But  at  times  every  line  of  his 
face,  even  his  whole  frame,  became  instinct  with  pas- 
sion, and  then  the  eye  kindled  or  tearful — the  very  soul 
speaking  through  the  body  that  trembled  with  emotion 
or  erected  itself  to  an  attitude  of  authority — the  torrent 


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of  feeling  often  subdued  and  carried  away  his  hearers 
with  responding  emotion.  I  can  hardly  tell  why — but 
Dr.  Romeyn  and  young  Spencer,  of  Liverpool,  have  al- 
ways been  associated  in  my  mind,  as  having  strong  points 
of  resemblance.  Certainly  I  think  that,  so  far  as  the 
pulpit  is  concerned,  Dr.  Romeyn,  in  his  prime,  was  en- 
titled to  be  called  one  of  the  very  first  preachers  of  his 
day. 

"His  success  corresponded  with  this  description  .... 
for  years  this  house  overflowed.  Prayer  meetings  and 
evening  lectures  were  well  sustained.  He  was  aided  by 
a  most  efficient  board  of  elders ;  and  the  accessions  to  the 
church  were  numerous  at  almost  every  Communion  sea- 
son. Especially  were  his  labors  blessed  among  the 
young.  His  catechetical  classes  on  Wednesday  after- 
noons were  crowded.  He  threw  such  attraction  around 
them  that  we  longed  for  the  day :  and  among  this  class, 
and  through  this  instrumentality,  very  much  of  his  use- 
ful labor  was  performed.  Of  a  very  large  Bible  class 
of  young  ladies,  every  one,  I  think  he  told  me,  became  a 
professor  of  religion.  More  young  men  became  minis- 
ters from  his  congregation  than  from  any  other.  And 
the  churches  in  the  city  from  that  day  to  this  have  drawn 
a  large  proportion  of  elders  and  deacons,  and  our  be- 
nevolent societies  many  of  their  most  active  members 
and  officers,  from  among  the  men  who  were  trained 
under  him." 

The  following  is  the  tablet  now  in  the  vestibule  of 
the  present  church : 

"In  Memory 

of 

John  Brodhead  Romeyn,  D.D., 

The  First  Pastor  of  this  Church; 

A  Faithful  and  Persuasive  Preacher; 

The  Supporter  of  Public  Institutions; 

The  Patron  of  indigent  merit,  and 


jrmi)  atJenue  presljpterian  Cijurci)  21 


A  Father  to  the  young. 

A  liberal  and  polite  Scholar; 

A  Fearless  Advocate  of  truth, 

And  a  warm  and  true  friend. 

His  faithfulness  is  recorded  on  high; 

His  success  in  the  hearts  of  his  people. 

He  was  born  Nov.  8,  1777; 

And  entered  into  rest 

22nd  Feb.,  1825 ; 

In  the  48th  year  of  his  age. 

The  26th  of  his  ministry  and  the 

17th  of  his  pastoral  care  of 

This  Church. 

Also  of  his  wife, 

Harriet  Bleecker, 

Who  died  22nd  October,  1825 ; 

In  the  45th  year  of  her  age 

Eminent  for  her  piety  and 

Christian  virtues. 

They  Sleep  in  Jesus." 

First  Session: 

Under  the  leadership  of  such  a  man  it  was  reasonable 
to  expect  that  the  spiritual  work  of  the  church  would  be 
well  organized,  and  this  is  certainly  manifest  from  the 
records  of  the  Session  of  those  days.  It  is  a  quaint  old 
volume,  the  handwriting  is  cramped,  but  clear;  it  con- 
tains the  signatures  of  men  of  note  as  Moderator  of 
Presbytery  from  time  to  time  by  whom  the  records  were 
approved,  and  it  pictures  forth  sometimes  by  what  its 
records,  and  sometimes  between  the  lines,  the  burdens 
carried,  the  problems  solved,  and  the  joys  and  comforts 
experienced  by  these  faithful  men. 

The  position  of  Elder  in  the  Cedar  Street  Church  was 
no  sinecure.  Dr.  Romeyn  not  only  believed  in  the  cove- 
nant obligations  of  his  church  members,  but  he  saw  to 


22  Centennial  Cele&tation  of  tfje 

It  by  personal  oversight,  being  an  "episcopos"  in  the 
original  New  Testament  sense,  that  his  parishioners 
lived  up  to  these  obligations.  He  divided  his  Session  as 
soon  as  it  was  increased  in  number  into  four  divisions, 
and  set  each  as  a  committee  in  charge  of  an  equal  part 
of  the  church,  and  they  were  directed  to  engage  in  con- 
stant visitation  and  to  report  statedly  at  the  Session 
meetings.  Every  dereliction  of  Christian  duty  was,  if 
we  may  use  the  word,  "pounced"  upon,  whether  the 
offense,  or  "crime,"  as  it  was  usually  denominated  in 
the  record,  was  that  of  intemperance,  or  of  engaging  in 
bursts  of  profanity,  or  of  engaging  in  personal  quar- 
rels, as  some  of  the  colored  communicants  seemed  to 
be  unfortunate  enough  to  do,  or  of  entertaining  unor- 
thodox views  on  the  subject  of  baptism,  or  of  absenting 
themselves  from  the  Lord's  Supper,  or,  in  a  particular 
case,  of  marriage  with  a  deceased  wife's  sister:  these 
cases,  whether  reported  directly  to  the  Session,  or  com- 
ing to  their  ears  on  the  wings  of  rumor,  or,  as  the 
records  have  it,  "fama  clamosa,"  the  first  step  was  al- 
most always  to  appoint  one  or  more  of  the  Elders  to 
visit  the  offender,  and  endeavor  to  bring  them  to  con- 
fession and  to  a  condition  of  penitence.  If  this  failed, 
the  machinery  of  the  Form  of  Government  and  the 
Book  of  Discipline  was  at  once  set  in  operation,  and 
while  there  are  few  cases  of  the  extreme  penalty  of 
the  church,  there  are  many  beautiful  instances  of  words 
of  comfort  and  admonition  recorded  at  length  in  the 
minutes  addressed  to  those  who,  when  labored  with  in 
this  friendly  and  affectionate  manner  were  restored  to 
their  full  church  privileges. 

There  was  one  interesting  and  obstinate  case  of  a 
member  who  came  to  have  doubts  as  to  the  validity  of 
his  own  baptism.  The  Baptist  Church  at  that  time  seems 
to  have  been  active,  and  infant  baptism  was  a  disputed 
and  mooted  theological  point  so  far  as  they  were  con- 
cerned.    The  brother  in  question  was  labored  with  for 


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many  months  by  the  Session,  and  when  at  last  it  ap- 
peared that  his  doubts  were  not  being  resolved  he  was 
notified  that  he  must  come  to  a  knowledge  of  the  truth 
within  a  certain  time,  or  take  the  consequences.  It  was 
much  like  the  incident  narrated  of  Dr.  Jowett  of  Baliol 
College,  who  is  said  to  have  stated  to  a  conceited  student, 
who  solemnly  informed  him  that  after  mature  considera- 
tion he  had  come  to  the  conclusion  that  there  was  no 
God,  "Young  man,  unless  you  come  to  the  conclusion 
that  there  is  a  God  by  noon  to-morrow,  you  may  leave 
this  college." 

This  "doubting  Thomas"  of  Cedar  Street  Church  was 
finally  dismissed  by  letter  to  the  Baptist  Church  by  a  cer- 
tificate which  closed  as  follows,  as  did  nearly  all  their  let- 
ters to  Baptist  Churches : 

"In  giving  this  dismission  the  Session  deem  it  to  be 
their  duty  to  state  that  while  they  respect  liberty  of  con- 
science, they  cannot  but  consider  their  Baptist  brethren 
as  in  an  error  on  the  subject  of  baptism." 

This  letter  was  granted  on  condition  that  he  should 
take  his  dismissal  before  being  rebaptized,  and  was  ac- 
companied by  a  resolution  addressed  to  him,  commenting 
on  his  instability  of  mind,  his  being  "tossed  to  and  fro 
and  carried  about  with  every  wind  of  doctrine,"  and 
enjoining  him  not  to  think  of  himself  more  highly  than 
he  ought  to  think,  and  containing  a  further  protest 
against  the  "error  of  the  Baptist  brethren  in  re-baptizing 
those  who  have  been  baptized  according  to  the  law  of 
Christ's  house." 

The  colored  membership  of  the  early  church  was  a 
very  fruitful  source  of  process  under  the  book  of  disci- 
pline, and  their  frequent  suspension  may  explain  an  in- 
teresting note  in  the  private  pastoral  diary  of  Dr.  James 
W.  Alexander,  of  November  9,  1845  • 

"I  find  from  our  register  that  there  have  been  twenty- 
nine  black  communicants  in  the  church  from  the  begin- 
ning.   /  do  not  think  we  have  one  to-day." 


24  Centennial  Celebration  of  tfje 

Care  of  the  Children: 

One  of  the  earliest  deliberations  of  the  Session  was 
on  the  subject  of  infant  baptism,  and  the  duty  of  parents 
"to  fulfil  the  solemn  obligations  which  the  baptism  of 
children  has  imposed  upon  them,"  and  it  was 

"Resolved,  that  on  this  important  subject  the  tenor  and 
spirit  of  the  Confession  of  Faith,  the  Longer  and  Shorter 
Catechism,  and  the  Directory  of  the  Presbyterian  Church 
be  rigidly  observed  and  enforced  by  this  Session." 

As  already  noted  of  Dr.  Romeyn,  the  children  of  the 
church  were  carefully  looked  after,  the  Elders  were  as- 
signed in  rotation  to  assist  the  pastor  in  catechizing  them, 
and  the  catechetical  class  was  for  a  long  time  kept  up 
with  great  fidelity,  so  that  in  the  same  private  record  of 
Dr.  Alexander,  nearly  thirty  years  later,  we  find  the  roll 
of  the  children,  one  of  whom,  Adolphus  Smedburg,  still 
lives  as  a  member  of  the  church,  in  constant  and  faith- 
ful attendance.  But  the  Elders  seem  to  have  fallen  off 
a  little  in  their  work  of  assistance,  and  Dr.  Alexander 
was  only  able  to  secure  the  help  of  ladies,  so  that  he  has 
a  note,  June  3,  1848,  with  a  large  hand  and  index  finger 
pointing  to  it : 

"To  consider  next  year  (D.  V.)  whether  the  incon- 
veniences of  having  aid  only  from  ladies  may  not  make 
it  desirable  to  give  up  this  mode  of  instruction  altogether 
in  this  shape." 

We  are  fortunate  in  having  from  Mr.  Henry  M.  Hall, 
of  Lyme,  Connecticut,  a  most  interesting  letter  from  his 
brother.  Rev.  John  E.  Hall,  D.D.,  who  died  in  Cleve- 
land, Ohio,  about  six  years  ago,  at  the  age  of  83.  Dr. 
Hall  was  one  of  the  first  children  baptized  in  the  Cedar 
Street  Church.  His  father  had  been  a  charter  member 
and  Elder  of  the  West  Church,  then  in  Carmine  Street, 
and  was  a  charter  member  of  our  church.  We  quote  the 
letter  nearly  in  full,  though  in  part  somewhat  repetitious 
of  facts  already  noted. 


jFiftl)  atienue  pteslipterian  Cljurcl)  25 

"Aside  from  what  was  then  distinctively  known  as  the 
"Scotch"  Presbyterian  Churches,  Dr.  John  Hall's  present 
church  was  the  fourth  in  the  order  of  time  in  the  city, 
the  Wall  Street,  the  "Brick  Meeting"  and  the  Rutgers 
Street  being  the  prior  ones.  It  was  in  1807  that  the 
nucleus  of  the  new  congregation  made  its  appearance,  in 
the  subscription  of  sixty-five  gentlemen  and  one  lady 
(Mary  Watson)  to  build  a  Presbyterian  house  of  wor- 
ship "on  Cedar  Street,  between  Nassau  and  William." 
A  very  large  proportion  of  these  subscribers  were  from 
the  "Brick  Meeting,"  whose  pastor  was  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Gardiner  Spring,  himself  a  son  of  a  New  England  pas- 
tor. At  that  period  there  was  no  separate  congregational 
church  of  orthodox  affinities  in  the  city,  so  that  orthodox 
Congregationalists  coming  into  the  city  fell  quietly  and 
Cordially  into  the  ranks  of  the  Presb}i;erians.  A  few, 
however,  of  the  subscribers  were  apparently  of  Scotch 
extraction,  such  as  Archibald  Gracie,  John  Patrick,  and 
four  or  five  others.     .     .     . 

"A  life-size  portrait  of  this  excellent  man  has  of  late 
been  presented  to  the  Fifth  Avenue  Church,  and  there, 
by  courtesy  of  Dr.  Hall  four  years  since,  I  was  shown 
it  as  it  hung  on  the  walls  of  the  vestry ;  and  with  all  the 
more  gratification  did  I  gaze  as  I  thought  of  the  fact 
that  it  was  from  his  consecrated  hands  that  I  received 
the  water  of  baptism  in  infancy,  my  father  having  been 
one  of  the  original  subscribers  for  the  new  building,  and 
also  one  of  the  two  chosen  deacons  of  the  church. 

"The  main  aisle  of  this  Cedar  Street  house  had  a  hand- 
some tessellated  pavement,  which  was  so  much  prized, 
at  least  by  one  of  the  congregation  (Mr.  Griswold),  that 
he  rescued  it  from  the  debris  of  the  demolished  edifice 
and  relaid  it  in  the  rural  church  in  his  own  native  town, 
Lyme,  Connecticut.  On  that  sacred  mosaic,  while  it  was 
yet  in  the  Cedar  Street  Church,  there  once  fell  prostrate 
a  man  under  the  following  very  extraordinary  circum- 
stances :     So  near  as  I  recall.  Rev.  John  M.  Mason  was 


26  Centennial  Celebration  of  tlje 

the  temporary  occupant  of  the  pulpit,  when  in  the  midst 
of  the  sermon  a  gentlemanly  stranger  stepped  from  one 
of  the  pews,  and,  standing  erect  in  the  aisle,  broke  out 
into  these  impressive  lines  of  Cowper: 

"There  stands  the  messenger  of  truth ;  there  stands 

The  legate  of  the  skies !     His  theme  divine, 

His  office  sacred,  his  credentials  clear." 
And  then  immediately  collapsed  to  the  floor.  Of  course, 
the  astonishment  of  the  congregation  was  unbounded, 
and  all  were  agape.  The  unfortunate  gentleman,  how- 
ever, was  soon  tenderly  removed  and  the  services  pro- 
ceeded. 

This  original  Cedar  Street  house  boasted  of  no  organ, 
the  precentor  occupying  a  chair  directly  in  front  of  the 
pulpit,  from  which  he  arose  when  he  pitched  his  pipe. 
The  occupant  of  that  conspicuous  seat  was,  in  my  boy- 
hood, Mr.  Ezekiel  W.  Morse,  a  very  good  man,  a  school- 
teacher, and  who  enjoyed  a  long  uninterrupted  reign 
over  the  Sabbath  tunes  of  the  congregation.  On  com- 
munion days  the  Lord's  table  was  a  literal  exhibit,  as  it 
stretched  down  the  broad  aisle  from  the  pulpit  to  the 
entry  door,  being  filled  by  successive  relays  of  communi- 
cants. And  it  was  at  that  table,  as  I  emotionally  remem- 
ber, that  I  took  my  first  communion.  How  apostolic 
our  pastor  looked  as  he  stood  at  the  head  of  it." 

It  was  during  the  pastorate  of  Dr.  Romeyn  that  one 
of  the  earliest  and  longest  lived  societies  of  the  church 
was  founded.  This  was  the  Princeton  Seminary  Asso- 
ciation, an  account  of  which,  by  Mrs.  Alexander,  is  print- 
ed on  another  page. 

The  Second  Pastorate: 

After  the  death  of  Dr.  Romeyn  there  was  an  inter- 
regnum of  about  two  years.  The  records  of  the  Presby- 
tery show  that  on  October  13,  1826,  Cyrus  Mason  was 
licensed  to  preach,  and  at  the  same  meeting  Messrs. 
Hugh  Auchincloss  and  Oliver  Willcox  appeared  in  the 


CYRUS  MASON 


jFiftI)  atienue  ^xtshytttian  Cftutcfj  27^ 

Presbytery  as  Commissioners  from  the  Cedar  Street 
Church,  with  a  call  for  the  Rev.  Thomas  DeWitt,  of  the 
Classis  of  Poughkeepsie,  but  he  did  not  accept  the  call. 
The  Rev.  Dr.  Payson  and  the  Rev.  Dr.  Sprague  had  also 
been  considered,  but  declined,  so  that  in  December  of 
1826,  shortly  after  his  being  licensed,  Cyrus  Mason  was 
called  and  ordained  pastor,  and  continued  until  1835. 
There  is  no  extended  record  of  his  life,  but  the  church 
kept  on  growing,  so  much  so  that  it  became  necessary 
to  seek  enlarged  quarters.  Mr.  Disosway  records  in  his 
history  above  quoted  that 

"During  his  ministry  this  congregation  removed  its 
place  of  worship  to  the  new  elegant  marble  church  on 
Duane  Street.  The  old  lots  were  sold  for  $75,000  in 
1834,  the  congregation  worshiping  in  the  lecture  room 
of  the  Brick  Church  until  their  new  edifice  was  finished, 
in  1835.  This  cost  about  $40,000  without  the  lot;  and 
here  the  congregation  removed  on  the  first  Sabbath  of 
the  new  year  1836,  assuming  the  name  of  the  Duane 
Street  Church." 

The  real  cause  of  the  removal  was  the  proposed  action 
of  the  City  to  widen  Cedar  Street.  The  minutes  of  the 
Trustees  show  in  1833  that  in  spite  of  their  protests,  the 
proposed  widening  was  determined  on,  and  would  prove 
so  injurious  to  their  property  as  a  place  of  worship  that 
it  was  resolved  to  move.  The  first  site  selected  was  four 
lots  of  ground  at  the  southeast  corner  of  Chambers  and 
Chapel  Streets.  For  these  the  Committee  made  a  con- 
tract with  the  Corporation  of  Trinity  Church  for  $40,000. 
No  sooner  had  the  contract  been  signed,  however,  than 
the  City  took  proceedings  to  widen  Chapel  Street  as  well. 
Whether  the  vendors  knew  of  this  proposed  action  or 
not  does  not  appear,  except  that  when  the  Cedar  Street 
Church  Committee,  finding  that  this  widening  would 
make  the  lots  inadequate  for  their  proposed  building, 
purchased  instead  a  plot  fronting  100  feet  on  Duane 
Street  and  116  feet  on  Church  Street  for  $30,000,  they 


28  Centennial  Celebration  of  t|)e 

requested  the  Corporation  of  Trinity  Church  to  release 
them  from  their  proposed  purchase.  On  the  minutes  of 
the  Trustees  for  March  20,  1834,  it  is  noted  that  they 
had  received  a  letter  from  the  Comptroller  of  Trinity 
Corporation,  "informing  the  Committee  that  payment  for 
the  lots  will  be  expected  agreeably  to  the  contract."  The 
Committee  were  subsequently  able  to  get  rid  of  their 
contract  without  substantial  loss.  The  Duane  Street 
Church  adjoined  the  New  York  Hospital. 

It  appears  that  in  those  days  the  Church  had  the  right, 
for  they  exercised  it,  to  stop  traffic  during  Divine  service 
along  the  street  in  front  of  the  church.  There  is  a  min- 
ute July  8,  1829,  of  the  appointment  of  a  Committee 

"To  take  the  necessary  measures  for  causing  a  chain  to 
be  suspended  across  the  street  opposite  the  church  dur- 
ing the  hours  of  service  on  the  Sabbath." 

In  addition  to  the  little  unpleasantness  with  Trinity 
Corporation,  the  Trustees  had  another  experience  of  the 
uncertainties  of  the  law.  They  had  been  authorized  to 
execute  a  warranty  deed  of  the  Cedar  Street  property 
when  they  moved.  Many  years  later  there  is  an  entry  in 
an  old  leather-bound  receipt  book  of  the  Treasurer,  re- 
garding the  payment  of  a  substantial  sum  in  full  of  dower 
rights  to  quiet  litigation  by  a  widow  of  one  of  the 
grantors  to  the  church,  who  had  not  joined  in  the  original 
deeds. 

This  receipt  book  records,  by  the  way,  many  suggestive 
incidents.  In  it  appears  the  autograph  of  every  one 
under  salary  from  the  church.  The  beautiful  autograph 
of  James  W.  Alexander  is  as  frequent  as  the  quarter 
days  on  which  his  salary  was  paid.  In  fact,  it  is  gratify- 
ing to  see  with  what  absolute  punctuality  the  church 
payments  were  made.  Almost  every  receipt  closes  with 
the  words  "This  day  due,"  and  in  fact  there  is  but  one 
which  contains,  underscored,  the  words  "which  was  due 
yesterday,"  and  this  punctiliousness  in  paying  the  serv- 
ants of  the  Lord  is  emphasized  by  the  fact  that  the  con- 


jFiftl)  auenue  ptegfipterian  C[)urcl)  29 

temporaneous  minutes  of  the  Board  show  that  at  times 
the  Treasurer  was  authorized  to  borrow  at  the  banks  in 
order  to  make  these  salary  payments.  It  is  believed  that 
this  punctuality  in  meeting  pastoral  obligations  has  con- 
tinued without  a  break  throughout  the  history  of  the 
church. 

Upon  the  removal  to  Duane  Street,  the  Corporation 
adopted  a  new  seal  "having  a  representation  of  a  dove, 
bearing  an  olive  branch  in  its  beak,  surrounded  by  the 
words  'Presbyterian  Church  in  Duane  Street.'  In  the 
impression  of  the  seal  that  remains,  the  dove  appears  to 
be  a  little  out  of  drawing. 

Dr.  Mason's  first  wife  was  a  Miss  Markoe,  a  sister  of 
the  late  Dr.  Thomas  M.  Markoe,  whose  father,  Francis 
Markoe,  was  an  Elder  in  the  Cedar  Street  Church.  The 
mother  of  Mr.  James  H.  Young,  a  present  member  of 
our  church,  was  Miss  Anne  Mason,  a  sister  of  Dr. 
Mason.    Mr.  Young  writes : 

"The  infancy  and  childhood  of  the  four  surviving  chil- 
dren were  spent  mostly  in  the  Cedar  Street  Church.  Of 
these,  three — myself  and  two  sisters — still  survive." 

He  also  calls  attention  to  the  fact  that  the  doctor  was 
instrumental  in  the  founding  of  the  New  York  Uni- 
versity. 

Dr.  Mason  was  forced  to  resign  by  reason  of  a  condi- 
tion of  health  that  disabled  him  from  pulpit  work,  and 
soon  after  the  time  of  the  removal  to  the  Duane  Street 
Church  he  resigned,  accepting  an  employment  from  the 
Beneficent  Congregational  Church  and  Society  in  Provi- 
dence, R.  I. 

The  following  appreciation  of  Dr.  Mason  appears  in 
the  minutes  of  September  9,  1835 ;  of  a  congregational 
meeting  attended  "by  a  large  number  of  male  members 
and  pewholders" : 

"In  view  of  the  Solemn  Nature  of  the  Connection  of 
Pastor  &  People,  which  is  now  about  to  be  dissolved  be- 
twixt this  Church  &  Congregation  and  the  Rev'd  Cyrus 


30  Centennial  Celefitation  of  tlje 

Mason  who,  for  Nine  Years,  has  discharged  his  arduous 
and  important  ministerial  duties  to  the  general  Accept- 
ance of  the  People,  &  whose  labors  have  been  blessed  of 
God  in  seasons  that  are  past  by  great  harmony  amongst 
ourselves  and  by  frequent  Additions  to  this  Church,  out 
of  which  very  many,  from  time  to  time,  have  gone  forth 
to  aid  in  building  up  &  sustaining  other  Churches,  or  to 
become  Ministers  themselves :  And  whereas,  under  his 
Ministry  this  Church  and  Congregation  have  continued 
to  be  prompt  &  efficient  promoters  of  the  great  Works 
of  benevolence  &  Christian  enterprise,  which  abound  in 
and  characterize  this  Community  and  Age;  therefore, 
Resolved,  that  we  sincerely  regret  the  existence  of  any 
circumstances  connected  with  the  call  from  the  Congre- 
gational Church  in  Providence,  which  in  the  Opinion  of 
the  Rev'd  Mr.  Mason  make  it  his  duty  to  ask  of  Pres- 
bytery that  his  pastoral  connection  with  the  Church  and 
Congregation  be  now  dissolved. 

"Resolved,  that  in  compliance  with  his  request  we 
hereby  unite  in  this  application  &  that  Certificate  in  ac- 
cordance be  granted  by  the  Chairman  &  Secretary  of  this 
Meeting. 

"Resolved,  Under  the  circumstances  in  which  Mr.  Ma- 
son is  about  to  leave  us,  that  the  Board  of  Trustees  be 
directed  to  account  to  him  for  one  year's  salary  beyond 
the  time  that  his  services  with  us  shall  be  continued ; 

"Resolved,  that  we  affectionately  tender  to  Mr.  Mason 
the  expression  of  our  heartfelt  wishes  &  prayer  to  God, 
that  his  usefulness  may  be  long  continued :  That  he  may 
be  abundantly  prospered  in  his  Public  &  in  his  private 
life,  and  that  when  that  day  which  comes  to  all  shall  come 
to  him,  that  he  may  render  an  acceptable  account  to  the 
Almighty  Judge  and  be  assigned  by  our  Heavenly  Father 
a  mansion  not  made  with  hands.  Eternal  in  the  Heavens ; 

"On  motion  Resolved,  that  a  copy  of  the  foregoing 
Preamble  &  Resolutions  be  attested  by  the  Chairman  & 


JFiftj)  atjenue  pregfiptetian  Cfiurcl)  31 

Secretary  &  furnished  to  the   Rev'd   Mr.   Mason,  The 
Church  Session  and  the  Board  of  Trustees ; 

"The  Rev'd  Mr.  Mason  having  upon  Invitation  re- 
turned to  the  Meeting,  the  Preamble  &  Resolutions  which 
had  been  adopted  were  read  to  him,  whereupon  he  made 
some  brief  remarks  expressing  his  entire  appreciation  of 
the  proceedings.  Adjourned." 
The  Third  Pastorate: 

On  the  17th  of  May,  1836,  Messrs.  Thomas  Masters, 
John  W.  Leavitt  and  Hugh  Auchincloss  appeared  in 
Presbytery  to  prosecute  the  call  of  the  Duane  Street 
Church  to  the  Rev.  George  Potts,  of  Mississippi. 

It  was  in  the  preceding  December  that  the  great  con- 
flagration occurred  in  New  York  City,  in  which  the  rec- 
ords of  the  Session  had  been  consumed  by  fire.  In  the 
minutes  of  December  31,  1835,  the  action  of  the  Trustees 
is  noted  in  reinsuring  certain  insurance  "in  companies 
which  have  been  rendered  insolvent  by  the  recent  ap- 
palling conflagration  with  which  our  City  has  been  vis- 
ited," and  subsequently  the  minutes  show  that  the  Sab- 
bath School  rooms  belonging  to  the  church  were  rented 
during  the  week  to  Public  School  No.  10  for  the  accom- 
modation of  120  girls  in  that  school  "while  repairs  ne- 
cessitated by  the  conflagration  were  being  made." 

Dr.  Potts  was  a  Philadelphian  and  came  to  New  York 
from  the  Presbytery  of  Mississippi.  At  his  installation 
the  Rev.  Mr.  Krebs  preached  the  sermon  from  I.  Cor., 
9:27.  Mr.  Crane,  the  Moderator  of  Presbytery,  pre- 
sided and  proposed  the  constitutional  questions.  Mr. 
Smith  gave  the  charge  to  the  pastor,  and  Mr.  Spence. 
gave  the  charge  to  the  people.  The  business  of  the 
church  under  his  pastorate  was  uneventful.  The  min- 
utes show  that  a  Calendar  of  Stated  offerings  had  been 
established : 

The  Bible  Society  in  the  month  of  November. 

Domestic  Missions  in  the  month  of  December. 

Education  Cause  in  the  month  of  January. 


32  Centennial  Celebration  of  tfee 

Sabbath  Schools  in  the  month  of  February. 

Foreign  Missions  in  the  month  of  March. 

Tract  Distribution  in  the  month  of  April. 
But  the  resolution  of  Session  providing  for  these  offer- 
ings shows  an  interesting  feature  of  the  method  then  in 
vogue : 

"That  the  pastor  on  the  first  Sabbath  of  each  month 
designated  as  above,  and  on  such  other  occasions  during 
the  same  month  as  may  be  convenient  to  himself,  shall 
preach  upon  the  general  subject  without  reference  to 
particular  organizations,  and  that  it  shall  be  the  duty  of 
the  Clerk  of  Session  to  notify  the  Agents  of  the  several 
Associations  to  whom  it  may  appertain  that  they  solicit 
the  subscriptions  of  the  congregation  during  those 
months  in  which  particular  attention  has  been  called  to 
each  of  the  several  objects." 

The  growth  of  the  church  giving  is  alluded  to  under 
the  general  discussion  of  benevolences  and  in  connection 
with  the  reports  to  the  General  Assembly  in  another 
place.  There  is  an  interesting  note  in  the  minutes  of 
December  5,  1837,  where  a  committee  was  organized  in 
the  congregation  under  one  of  the  Elders  to  take  charge 
of  and  actively  distribute  tracts  in  the  city.  During  the 
pastorate  of  Dr.  Potts  we  find  the  first  suggestion  of  an 
assistant  pastor,  which  was  brought  up  on  the  recom- 
mendation of  his  physician.  The  Session  resolved  that 
"it  would  be  inexpedient  to  associate  an  assistant  with 
the  Pastor,"  and  that  in  lieu  thereof 
"he  omit  the  resumption  of  the  Tuesday  evening  lectures, 
the  Bible  class  and  catechetical  instructions  and  only 
prepare  and  deliver  from  the  pulpit  two  discourses  on  the 
Sabbath  until  he  shall  by  this  means  discover  whether  his 
health  may  be  established." 

Mr.  Smedberg  recalls  that  in  these  days,  when  his 
family  were  living  near  St.  John's  Park,  the  sessions  of 
the  Sunday  School  were  on  Saturday,  and  that  some 
diligence  was  required  on  the  part  of  older  members  of 


GEORGE    POTTS,    D.D. 


jFiftf)  atienue  Pre0tjpterian  Cljurcl)  33 

the  family  to  secure  the  attendance  of  the  children  on 
this  their  holiday.  The  minutes  of  the  session  show 
that  the  Sunday  School  was  appointed  to  be  held  on  Sat- 
urday, "in  the  morning  and  in  the  afternoon,  one  and  a 
half  hours  each."  It  was  for  some  time  the  custom  for 
the  children  who  were  not  communicants  to  gather  in 
the  gallery  on  communion  Sundays,  but  being  under  no 
supervision  or  control  of  older  people,  the  Superintend- 
ents of  the  Sabbath  School  were  required  by  Session 
"to  cause  the  younger  children  of  the  School  to  go  to 
their  homes  and  not  on  that  particular  occasion  to  be 
brought  into  the  church  as  usual,  so  that  the  pastor  and 
the  congregation  may  be  spared  the  serious  disturbance 
which  heretofore  has  been  experienced  from  them,  even 
with  the  best  care  that  could  be  given," 

It  was  in  the  month  of  March,  1844,  that  the  active 
meetings  for  the  organization  of  the  University  Place 
Church  were  being  held,  as  noted  in  a  commemorative 
book  of  the  Fiftieth  Anniversary  of  such  church,  pub- 
lished in  November,  1895.  Many  of  its  charter  mem- 
bers were  originally  members  of  the  Duane  Street 
Church,  and,  living  up-town,  found  it  inconvenient  to  at- 
tend the  services  so  far  away,  and  the  following  letters 
were  received  by  the  Session  and  Trustees  of  the  Duane 
Street  Church,  which  explain  themselves : 

"New  York,  March  12,  1844. 
"To  the  Session  and  Trustees 

of  the  Duane  Street  Church. 

"Gentlemen:  It  is  Known  to  You  that  a  Number  of 
the  Members  of  the  Duane  Street  Church  and  Congre- 
gation in  connection  with  some  other  persons  residing 
in  the  upper  part  of  the  City  have  had  it  in  contempla- 
tion for  a  considerable  time  to  erect  a  Church  and  estab- 
Hsh  a  Congregation  under  the  care  of  the  Presbytery  of 
New  York  for  the  convenience  of  themselves  and  their 
families  and  of  other  persons  who  wish  to  have  such  a 
place  of  worship  within  their  reach.     This  plan  is  now 


34  Centennial  Celebration  of  tfje 

matured  and  we  have  come  to  the  conclusion  that  the 
Rev'd  Dr.  Potts  shall  be  invited  to  assume  the  Pastoral 
Charge.  We  have  given  him  this  invitation  and  have 
received  from  him  his  assent.  We  deem  it  due  to  our 
past  relations  to  You  to  say  that  in  selecting  Dr.  Potts 
we  are  actuated  by  a  belief  that  there  is  in  the  part  of 
the  City  referred  to  a  wide  sphere  of  usefulness  which 
he  is  qualified  to  fill.  When  the  increase  of  the  popula- 
tion and  the  fact  that  many  families  are  continually  re- 
moving and  the  great  distance  of  the  Church  in  Duane 
Street  are  duly  considered  we  trust  that  you  will  not 
consider  our  step  as  hasty  or  unreasonable. 

"We  take  the  liberty  of  addressing  you  at  this  time  for 
the  purpose  of  setting  at  rest  certain  rumors  which  have 
been  afloat  as  to  the  purpose  upon  our  part  of  disturbing 
and  breaking  up  the  Duane  Street  Congregation.  On 
the  contrary  it  is  our  sincere  wish  that  the  Congregation 
may  be  sustained  efficiently. 

"With  sentiments  of  respect,  Gentlemen 

SILAS  BROWN, 
WILLIAM  H.  SMITH, 
RUFUS  LEAVITT, 
JOHN  GIHON, 
WM.  M.  HALSTEAD, 
JAMES  BROWN, 
GEO.  GRISWOLD, 
JNO.  C.  GREEN, 
G.  G.  HOWLAND, 
EDMUND  COFFIN." 

"New  York,  March  14,  1844. 
"To  the  Session  &  Trustees 

of  the  Duane  Street  Church. 

"Gentlemen.    Within  the  last  few  days  I  have  received 

a  formal  invitation  to  take  the  spiritual   Charge  of  an 

enterprise  which  has  been  for  some  time  in  agitation.    I 

allude  to  the  establishment  of  a  Church  and  Congrega- 


jFiftJ)  atienue  prc0tiptenan  Cfjurc!)  35 

tion  to  be  located  in  the  growing  part  of  the  City.  This 
enterprise  has  been  as  you  know  long  talked  of  by  that 
portion  of  the  Duane  Street  congregation  who  are  resi- 
dents in  that  region. 

"After  consultation  with  judicious  and  disinterested 
friends  who  advise  the  step,  but  especially  after  having 
sought  sincerely  the  Divine  direction,  I  have  come  to  the 
conclusion  with  much  painful  reluctance  to  announce  to 
you  my  consent  to  accept  of  the  above  invitation. 

'T  have  sought  to  be  guided  by  views  of  duty  only, 
and  trust  you  will  do  me  the  justice  to  believe  that 
Nothing  else  would  have  decided  me  to  take  a  step  one 
effect  of  which  will  be  to  separate  me  from  numerous 
and  truly  beloved  friends,  with  whom  I  have  lived  in 
habits  of  affectionate  intercourse  for  several  years. 

"I  have  been  induced  to  believe  that  in  the  sphere  of 
labor  upon  which  I  propose  to  enter,  with  your  permis- 
sion and  the  permission  of  my  Presbytery,  I  may  be 
more  useful  to  the  cause  of  the  Redeemer  and  of  our 
Church,  than  if  I  continued  in  my  present  position. 

"Be  assured,  gentlemen,  that  it  is  with  feelings  of  un- 
abated regard,  and  unaffected  gratitude,  for  your  kind- 
ness that  I  now  request  that  You  will  unite  with  me  in 
asking  from  the  Presbytery  a  dissolution  of  the  Pastoral 
connection. 

"I  will  not  now  pretend  to  utter  all  my  feelings.  Re- 
serving that  for  another  occasion,  I  beg  you,  one  and  all, 
to  receive  the  sincere  assurance  of  my  Affectionate  de- 
sire for  your  continued  welfare  as  individuals  and  as  a 
Congregation,  and  hope  that  you  will  continue  to  me 
your  regard  which  I  shall  always  esteem  highly.  I  am 
gentlemen, 

"Your  friend  &  Pastor, 

"GEORGE  POTTS." 

The  Presbytery's  records  show  that  his  resignation 
was  acted  upon  April  i6,  1844. 


36  Centennial  Celebration  of  ttje 

The  Fourth  Pastorate: 

The  fourth  pastor,  twice  installed,  of  our  Church  was 
the  Rev.  James  W.  Alexander,  D.D.,  one  of  the  princes 
of  Presbyterianism,  whether  as  a  teacher,  or  as  a  preach- 
er, or  as  a  pastor. 

During  the  interval  between  Dr.  Potts'  resignation  and 
the  call  to  Dr.  Alexander,  an  event  of  some  interest  oc- 
curred. 

In  April,  1844,  the  Session  recorded  the  sale  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church  in  Wall  Street,  and  its  removal  to 
Fifth  Avenue,  where  "the  Old  First"  now  stands.  The 
vaults  were  removed  at  the  same  time,  and  the  minutes 
record  an  agreement  with  the  Wall  Street  Church  for 
the  removal  "of  the  remains  of  our  highly  venerated 
Pastor,  Rev'd  Dr.  Romeyn,  and  his  wife."  These  re- 
mains were  removed  under  the  personal  supervision  of 
a  special  committee  after  being  re-enclosed  in  a  new 
casket,  for  which  it  is  noted  the  committee  "disbursed  the 
sum  of  $34" ! 

With  reference  to  the  pastorate  of  Dr.  Alexander,  as 
well  as  that  of  Dr.  John  Hall  subsequently,  the  difficulty 
lies  in  the  wealth  of  material  available.  Mr.  William 
Alexander  placed  at  the  disposal  of  the  committee  ma- 
terial in  his  possession  for  which  our  appreciative  thanks 
are  recorded. 

The  minutes  of  Presbytery  record  its  proceedings  in 
regard  to  his  installation  on  the  3rd  of  October,  1844. 
His  own  personal  records  as  Pastor  commence  with  a 
reference  to  his  installation. 

"Pastoral  Records  of  my  connexion  with  the  Duane 
Street  Church,  New  York: 
I  was  installed  by  the  Presbytery  of  N  York,  on 

Thursday,  October  3d,   1844,  in  the  evening.     The 

Rev.   Mr  Greenleaf,   Md.  presided.     My  honoured 

father  preached,  from  2  Tim.  2:15,    'Study  to  shew 

thyself  &c.'    Dr  Phillips  offered  the  opening  prayer. 


JAMES  W.  ALEXANDER,   D.D. 


jFiftf)  atjenue  pteg&^terian  CJjutcf)  37 

Dr  Potts  delivered  the  charge  to  me :  Dr  Krebs  to 
the  people.  Dr  Spring  made  the  closing  prayer. 
The  choir  began  with  a  voluntary:  'Hark!  what 
mean  those  holy  voices.'  They  sang  also  Ps.  132. 
CM,  v.  4-8.  'Arise,  O  King  of  grace,  arise' ;  Select 
Hymns,  428,  'We  bid  thee  welcome';  and  442. 
'Jerusalem,  my  happy  home.'  (Worcester's  Watts.) 
After  which,  I  went  into  the  pulpit,  and  blessed  the 
people.  The  congregation,  in  large  numbers,  came 
forward,  and  gave  me  the  right  hand. 

Ebene£;er. 
Elders,  October,  1844. 

Hugh  Auchincloss,  chosen  Aug.  i,  1819. 
Thomas  Masters,  ib. 
Cyrenius  Beers,  chosen  Nov.  i,  1829. 
Horace  Hinsdale,  ib. 
Deacon. 

William  Walker,  Nov.  i,  1829. 
Salary  offered,  $3,000." 
His  pastoral  diary  presented  by  his  family  to  the 
church  in  October,  1904,  is  in  many  ways  too  beautifully 
intimate  to  quote  from  in  detail.  It  records  particularly 
his  dealings  with  the  catechetical  class  and  the  substance 
of  his  Communion  talks  and  some  of  his  visits  to  those 
who  were  sick  or  in  trouble. 

When  Dr.  Alexander  came,  Mr.  Stephen  Whitney  was 
President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees.  He  was  reported 
the  second  richest  man  in  New  York,  and  Mr.  Smedberg 
recalls  that  he  used  to  drive  up  from  his  house  on  the 
Battery  to  the  Duane  Street  Church. 

The  General  Assembly,  which  then  had  large  powers 
over  the  Princeton  Seminary,  in  June,  1849,  sent  Com- 
missioners Dr.  Williams  W.  Phillips  and  Nicholas  Mur- 
ray to  announce  to  him  that  he  had  been  elected  by  the 
Assembly  to  be  Professor  of  Ecclesiastical  History  and 
Church  Government  in  Princeton  Seminary, 


38  Centennial  Celebration  of  the 

The  forty  years'  "Familiar  Letters"  of  Dr.  Alexander 
edited  by  John  Hall,  D.D.,  of  Trenton,  published  by 
Scribner  in  1870,  present  a  very  full  picture  of  his  life. 
He  records  in  a  letter  written  about  this  time  that  as  to 
the  comparative  importance  of  the  two  posts,  namely, 
that  of  Professor  in  the  Seminary  and  that  of  Pastor, 

*T  have  never  had  any  question  that  (to  one  com- 
petent) the  teaching  place  was  equal  in  importance  to 
any  ten  of  the  other." 

He  also  records : 

"I  have  seen  clearly  that  the  Duane  Street  Church 
could  live  only  by  moving  up-town  and  thither  I  wished 
not  to  move.  I  have  seen  as  clearly  that  my  powers 
were  taxed  to  a  tension  which  must  soon  be  fatal,  while 
in  the  steadier  routine  of  teaching  I  might  last  a  season." 

But  he  was  reluctant — very.    He  writes : 

"To  know  that  I  might  remain  here  would  be  a  joy 
unspeakable.  No  dreams  of  mine  respecting  the  social 
happiness  of  the  pastoral  relation  have  failed  to  be  real- 
ized.   In  this  I  compare  it  to  marriage." 

The  following  tablet  may  be  seen  in  the  vestibule  of 
our  present  church: 

In  Memory  of 
James  Waddel  Alexander,  D.D. 

For  13  years 

The  Beloved  and  Revered  pastor 

of  this  Qiurch 

Whose  Singular  Natural  gifts 

Ripened  by  generous  Culture, 

Were  successfully  given 

To  his  sacred  work 

And  who  by  his  Fervent  piety, 

Pure  life, 

Tender  Affections,  large  Benevolence, 

And  unsparing  labor, 

So  endeared  himself  to  his  people 


JFiftf)  atienue  preistiptenan  Cftutcl)  39 

That  they  Mourn, 
As  for  a  dear  brother  and  beloved  friend. 
He  was  born  March  13th,  1804 
He  died  July  31st,  1859 
Declaring 
As  the  Sum  of  His  faith  and  hope 
"I  know  whom  I  have  believed, 
And  am  persuaded  that  he  is 
Able  to  keep  that  which  I 
Have  committed  to  him, 

Against  that  day." 

And  there  is  a  further  tablet  in  the  Chapel  of  the 
Theological  Seminary  of  Princeton,  unveiled  on  the  29th 
of  April,  1859,  the  addresses  at  which  time  were  pub- 
lished in  book  form.  The  address  relating  to  Dr.  James 
W.  Alexander  was  by  Theodore  L.  Cuyler,  D.D.  Some 
of  his  pithy  sentences  may  be  reproduced. 

"His  name  represents  three  generations  of  devout 
pulpit  eloquence,  for  the  blood  of  the  blind  preacher  of 
Virginia  mingled  with  the  blood  of  the  patriarch  of  this 
Seminary  in  the  veins  of  James  Waddel  Alexander." 

He  "lived  on  earth  fifty-five  years,  every  one  of  them 
busy  to  the  brim." 

He  alludes  to  his  own  student  life  under  him  in  Prince- 
ton College  when  he  was  Professor  of  Latin  and  Eng- 
lish Literature.  He  comments  on  his  habits  of  scrupu- 
lous personal  neatness,  and  to  his  preaching  the  Gospel 
of  Jesus  gratuitously  while  a  Professor  "down  in 
Witherspoon  Street  Negro  Chapel  to  the  children  of 
God  carved  in  ebony." 

Dr.  Cuyler  says  that  his  five  years  in  the  Seminary 
were  "the  most  uneventful  episode  of  his  noble  life." 
He  "hungered  to  get  back  to  the  pulpit  which  was  his 
throne,  and  to  his  empire,  the  people's  hearts." 

"The  pulpit  of  New  York  has  had  more  thrilling 
orators  and  more  brilliant  pyrotechnists,  but  it  never  held 


40  Centennial  Celebration  of  tbt 

a  more  symmetric,  scholarly  and  satisfying  minister  of 
Jesus  Christ  than  James  W.  Alexander.  The  word  to 
describe  him  is  satisfying.  He  satisfied  the  intellect,  he 
satisfied  the  purest  taste,  he  satisfied  the  conscience,  he 
fed  the  innermost  soul  of  the  devout  believer,  and  it  is 
no  ordinary  achievement  to  have  equally  satisfied  the 
culture  of  Fifth  Avenue  and  the  company  of  humble 
negroes  who  clung  to  him  in  the  Witherspoon  Street 
Chapel." 

Dr.  Alexander  was  also  a  prolific  writer.  Dr.  Cuyler 
says  he 

"put  more  thoughts  into  type  than  any  man  who  has  ever 
lived  in  Princeton." 

He  wrote  35  Sunday  School  books  for  children,  and 
left  several  volumes  of  discourses.  His  friend  says  of 
him  that  while  he  sometimes  suffered  from  fits  of  phys- 
ical depression,  yet 

"when  the  sunshine  of  cheerfulness  burst  forth,  he  was 
as  sweet  as  summer." 

He  speaks  of  his  sportive  humor  and  flow  of  merri- 
ment, and  relates  the  following  personal  incident: 

"As  he  was  then  studying  hymnology,  I  showed  him  a 
queer  old  Methodist  Camp  Meeting  Hymn  Book,  which 
contained  this  remarkable  couplet: 

'When  I  was  blind  and  could  not  see 
The  Calvinists  deceived  me.' 

Dr.  Alexander  laughed  until  the  tears  ran  down  his  face, 
and  he  begged  the  loan  of  the  book,  which  proved  to  be 
permanent." 

The  sermons  preached  before  the  congregation  at  the 
funeral  services  on  October  9,  1859,  by  Charles  Hodge, 
D.D.,  and  John  Hall,  D.D.,  of  Trenton,  were  published 
by  Anson  D.  F.  Randolph. 

These  men,  so  well  qualified  to  judge  of  his  pulpit 
powers,  place  a  very  high  estimate  upon  his  gifts.  From 
their  two  addresses  we  read : 


Jfiftf)  auenue  pre0fipterian  Cfturcf)  41 

"No  minister  in  our  church  was  a  more  accomplished 
scholar.  He  was  familiar  with  Greek,  Latin,  French, 
German,  Italian  and  Spanish,  not  merely  as  a  philologist 
but  for  the  treasures  of  knowledge  and  taste  which  they 
contained," 

to  which  Dr.  Hodge  attributed  the  abundance  of  his  lit- 
erary allusions,  his  curious  felicity  of  expression  and  the 
variety  of  his  imagery.  "He  was  an  erudite  theologian. 
No  one  ever  heard  of  his  saying  or  doing  an  unseemly 
or  unkind  thing.  .  .  .  The  great  charm  of  his  preach- 
ing, that  to  which  more  than  to  anything  else  his  effi- 
ciency is  to  be  referred,  was  his  power  over  the  religious 
affections." 

Dr.  Alexander  "was  a  man  of  sorrows,  frequent  family 
bereavements;  repeated  attacks  of  illness,  some  of  them 
attended  by  great  bodily  agony,  a  shattered  nervous  con- 
stitution, caused  him  a  degree  of  suffering  protracted 
through  many  years." 

Dr.  Cuyler  and  Dr.  John  Hall  both  refer  to  the  "Let- 
ters to  Workingmen,"  written  under  the  pseudonym  of 
"Charles  Quill,"  which  "have  the  simplicity  and  pith  of 
Benjamin  Franklin."  It  commended  honest  labor,  as- 
serted the  rights  of  mechanics  but  unveiled  the  deformity 
of  the  "leveling  system." 

Dr.  Alexander  was  during  his  pastorate  much  exer- 
cised over  the  system  of  pew  tenure.  He  writes  from 
Princeton  in  1849: 

"My  poor  congregation  in  New  York  is  in  a  bad  way. 
The  two  or  three  old  Hunkers — who  can't  see  that  the 
earth  has  gone  round  any  since  Dr.  Romeyn  died — 
would  never  believe  (what  is  undeniable)  that  the  church 
cannot  be  maintained  where  it  is,  except  as  a  free  church. 
This  I  perceived  two  years  ago  and  discovered  six 
months  ago  that  five-sixths  of  the  people  were  ready  to 
move,  but  the  plan  was  quashed  by  the  Conservatives, 
and  I  fear  they  will  be  left  alone  unless  they  instanter 
remove.     The  house  is  almost  embedded  in  places  of 


42  Centennial  Celetitation  of  tht 

disreputable  resort.  Its  real  supporters  live  far  above  it. 
I  say  these  things  to  them  freely  now,  because  they  can- 
not charge  me  w^ith  any  worldly  lust  of  a  better  locale, 
which  they  constructively  did  while  I  was  with  them.  I 
said  to  Mr.  Auchincloss  that  two  years  hence  there  can- 
not by  possibility  be  a  Presbyterian  Church  at  that  cor- 
ner. Lower  New  York  is  in  no  proper  sense  other  than 
as  a  warehouse  compared  with  a  dwelling." 

When  his  congregation  became  converted  to  this 
theory  of  his  as  to  removal  and  recalled  him  in  1851, 
they  had  circulated  a  subscription  list  conditioned  upon 
his  return,  on  which  $38,000  was  pledged  and  they  had 
an  ofifer  of  $32,000  for  the  Duane  Street  premises.  He 
was  strongly  moved  by  the  recall  to  pastoral  work,  and 
he  comments  on  the  success  he  had  while  a  pastor  in 
drawing  young  men  around  him,  whereas  in  the  Semi- 
nary "all  my  efforts  have  failed  with  the  students  pri- 
vately and  socially." 

He  comments  in  one  letter  on  the  giving  out  of 
Watts'  Catechism,  since  when,  he  says,  "we  have  had  no 
syllabus  of  Bible  history  to  give  children  and  young 
people.  Such  a  book,  going  over  the  whole  narrative, 
without  much  remark,  would  sell  by  thousands." 

His  letters  during  the  last  years  of  his  life  give  a 
delightful  picture  of  New  York.  At  that  day  the  par- 
sonage was  22  West  Nineteenth  Street,  He  says  he 
finds  "a  good  smart  walk,  from  here  to  Trinity  Church, 
quite  tonical."  He  refers  to  dropping  into  old  Trinity, 
"Dr.  Hodges  on  the  organ  and  their  choir  of  boys  I 
found  transcendent,  the  Benedicite  was  chanted  so  as  to 
meet  every  demand  of  my  feelings." 

He  notes,  as  any  pastor  to-day  might  equally  record : 

"My  mind  works  incessantly  on  such  themes  as  these : 
The  abounding  misery,  the  unreached  masses ;  the  waste 
of  church  energy  on  the  rich,  its  small  operation  on  the 
poor;  emigrant  wretchedness;  our  boy  population;  our 
hopeless  prostitutes ;  our  4,000  grog  shops ;  the  absence 


FIFTH  AVE.  AND  NINETEENTH  ST.  CHURCH 
ERECTED  1852 


jFiftj)  atjenue  pte$fiptetjan  Cfjurcl)  43 

of  the  poor  from  Presbyterian  Churches ;  the  farce  of 
our  church  alms ;  confinement  of  our  church  efforts  to 
pew-holders;  the  do-nothing  life  of  our  Christian  pro- 
fessors in  regard  to  the  masses;  our  copying  the  Priest 
and  Levite  in  the  parable;  our  need  of  a  Christian  Lord 
Bacon  to  produce  a  'Novum  Organum'  of  philan- 
thropy; our  dread  of  innovation,  our  luxury  and  pride. 
Since  I  saw  the  drinking  customs  of  Britain  I  am  almost 
a  teetotaler  and  half  disposed  to  go  for  a  Maine  law 
against  vendors  of  drink." 

While  he  was  getting  settled  he  notes: 

"Furnace,  gas  and  Croton  pipes  have  almost  literally 
employed  almost  every  day  since  our  flitting,  pipes,  fur- 
naces, gas  meter  ditto.  My  rent  is  $900,  in  a  very  nar- 
row, tawdry,  shelly,  ambitious,  half-done  house,  the 
neighborhood,  however,  is  as  quiet  as  a  country  village." 

Christmas  Day,  1851,  he  says: 

"Saw  me  in  nine  churches :  St.  Francis  Xavier's,  St. 
Patrick's  Cathedral,  St.  Joseph's,  St.  Vincent  de  Paul, 
St.  Somebody's  (German),  Bellows',  Grace,  Calvary,  and 
Muhlenberg's  Little  Gothic  Free  Seat  Chapel." 

Suggestive  of  the  present  work  among  the  foreigners 
of  New  York  City  is  another  note  of  Dr.  Alexander's. 

"My  young  men  are  about  to  employ  a  man  who 
speaks  the  Irish  and  has  labored  20  years  in  Connaught, 
to  look  up  the  strangers  scattered  abroad  in  this  city. 
My  late  church  is  occupied  by  several  hundred  emigrant 
families." 

In  1852  he  records  an  interdenominational  meeting  for 
prayer  at  St.  George's  Episcopal  Church,  at  which  Dr. 
Spring  made  an  address  and  Dr.  Potts  offered  prayer. 
He  records  going  to  hear  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson  preach 
a  "disjointed  series  of  good  things;  audience  not  large, 
apparently  New  England  residents,  ladies,  uppish  clerks, 
&c." 

On  December  24,  1852,  he  records  an  exciting  week 
in  regard  to  the  new  church.    The  debt  was  canceled. 


44  Centennial  Celetitation  of  ti)e 

the  sale  of  pews  equaling  the  entire  cost  of  ground  and 
buildings. 

"All  the  very  high  priced  pews  are  taken;  about  95 
remain  unsold.  It  is  my  wish  that  the  sales  should  stop 
and  that  the  remaining  pews  should  be  rented  at  low 
rates." 

At  the  same  time  he  notes  that  Peter  Cooper  was  then 
building  the  Institute  just  below  the  new  Bible  House, 
which  is  just  celebrating  its  semicentennial.  A  little 
later  he  notes  that  the  ']']  pews  that  remained  unsold 
finally  were  all  rented  except  seven  below  and  three  in 
the  gallery. 

"I  wish  I  could  turn  out  about  twenty  pews  of  rich 
folks  and  fill  them  with  poor.  ...  I  never  was 
stronger  in  my  opinion  that  all  church  sittings  ought  to 
be  free,  yet  we  can't  reach  this  without  endowment. 

"Even  in  the  popish  churches  in  Paris  I  calculated 
that  at  one  sou  a  chair,  the  common  price,  people  of  reg- 
ular attendance  would  pay  $2  a  year,  which  is  just  the 
price  of  a  cheap  sitting  in  our  church." 

There  were  many  interesting  questions  agitating  the 
church  public  in  those  days. 

"The  question  of  riding  in  street  cars  on  Sundays  is 
agitating  our  community,  I  have  not  been  able  to  de- 
cide it." 

And  he  records  his  perplexities  on  the  questions  of 
preaching  extreme  Sabbatarianism.     He  says : 

"My  good  father  used  to  say,  'be  very  strict  yourself, 
be  very  lenient  in  judging  your  neighbor.'  " 

He  says  that  he  has  always  taken  milk  (on  Sunday) 
without  scruple,  "which  is  an  offense  to  hundreds  of  good 
people  among  us."  "Some  men  have  qualms  about  Sun- 
day gas,  but  on  inquiry  they  found  that  the  labor  which 
produced  it  fell  on  Thursday  or  Friday."  He  also  notes 
the  "Presbyterian  Liturgies"  published  in  1855  ^"^  his 
own  preference  for  the  Church  of  England^s  prayers. 


jFift!)  atienue  presliptenan  Ci)urcj)  45 

He  comments  on  the  removal  of  the  Brick  Church, 
whose  supporters  he  says  have  long  been  up-town: 

"Free  churches  must  be  established  for  the  class  re- 
maining below." 

In  another  place,  after  a  walk  up  Avenue  A  through 
the  German  quarters,  he  states : 

"I  cannot  get  any  other  churches  to  agree  with  me  in 
a  favorite  scheme  for  a  great  and  inviting  building, 
erected  far  down-town  with  a  striking  preacher,  seats 
free  and  no  treasurer  required ;" 

but  he  says  "our  folks  are  clearly  ripe  for  a  mission 
church,"  but  he  says  "I  do  not  mean  it  shall  be  down- 
town." (It  was  shortly  after  opened  in  Twentieth 
Street,  near  Seventh  Avenue),  and  he  comments  on  the 
institutional  work  of  Dr.  Muhlenberg's  Qiurch. 

His  passion  for  music  appears  throughout  his  letters. 
In  a  letter  of  November,  1853,  he  says : 

"We  are  in  an  odd  state  as  to  music.  Lowell  Mason 
is  our  leader,  but  since  his  return  from  Europe  he  is  so 
bent  on  severe,  plain  tunes  and  congregational  singing, 
that  while  I  am  tickled  immensely,  the  people  are  disap- 
pointed ;"  but  he  says  "his  success  in  making  the  people 
sing  has  been  marvelous,"  and  he  adds  that  "there  is  no 
church  in  the  city  where  so  many  join  in  the  singing." 

Mr.  Mason  himself  has  recorded  that  he  hardly  ever 
met  the  Doctor  that  this  was  not  the  leading  subject  of 
conversation,  and  that  the  Doctor  once  told  him,  when 
it  was  suggested  that  there  might  be  danger  of  a  return 
to  choir  singing,  that  he  would  not  remain  pastor  of  a 
church  where  the  singing  was  exclusively  in  the  hands  of 
a  choir. 

In  1854  the  congregation  voted  to  increase  his  salary 
to  $5,000,  which  he  refused  positively.  His  refusal  was 
obviated  by  provisions  subsequently  made  for  the  benefit 
of  his  family  at  his  death. 

In  1858  he  records  the  achievement  of  his  "Opera 
House  Service."    The  Academy  of  Music  had  been  se- 


46  Centennial  Celebration  of  tfje 

cured  and  although  it  was  a  rainy  night  there  were  three 
thousand  in  attendance.     He  says : 

"Numbers  sat  in  the  lobbies  and  saloons,  of  the  very 
class  who  are  never  seen  in  church,  the  collection  cov- 
ered the  whole  expense  with  15  per  cent,  over." 

Reference  has  been  repeatedly  made  to  the  pew  sys- 
tem of  the  church  and  to  the  desire  that  increased  ac- 
commodation might  be  provided  for  those  unable  to 
meet  the  cost  and  annual  charges  of  pew  ownership. 

Dr.  Alexander's  desire,  oft  expressed,  may  have  had 
something  to  do  with  the  generous  gift  of  Mr.  John 
Sinclair  at  the  time  of  the  removal  to  the  present  site, 
by  which  he  established  a  fund  in  the  hands  of  the 
Trustees  for  the  purpose  of  making  available  at  reason- 
able rentals  such  pews  as  might  revert  to  the  church  for 
whatever  reason  from  the  individual  owners. 

In  the  record  of  members  at  the  end  of  this  book  it 
will  be  of  interest  to  read  the  names  of  members  subse- 
quently active  in  this  or  other  churches  who  came  into 
our  communion  during  the  various  pastorates.  Under 
Dr.  Alexander's  leadership  we  find  admitted  by  profes- 
sion of  faith  such  persons  as  William  Irwin,  William 
Paton,  Fanny  C.  Bunker  (Mrs.  John  Sinclair),  whose 
grandmother,  Mrs.  Henry  Coit,  was  one  of  the  early 
members,  and  had  much  to  do  with  the  King  Street  Mis- 
sion in  its  beginnings ;  Robert  P.  Haines,  Emily  Auchin- 
closs  Maxwell,  Henry  B.  Auchincloss,  James  Fraser, 
Cornelius  R.  Agnew,  Wm.  H.  Beers  and  his  wife,  A. 
Gifford  Agnew,  Adolphus  Smedberg  and  his  wife,  James 
R.  Jesup,  Charles  Lanier,  James  W.  Alexander,  Jr., 
Theodore  Oilman,  James  H.  Young,  Thomas  Cochran; 
and  by  letter,  to  name  but  a  few,  William  Sloane,  Wm. 
A.  Wheelock,  Chas.  Scribner  and  his  wife,  Wm.  Libbey, 
Josiah  S.  Leverett,  Susan  M.  Alexander,  Wilson  Phra- 
ner,  William  Walker,  Lowell  Mason,  Robert  L.  Stuart 
and  his  wife,  Henry  Day,  Henry  G.  Marquand,  John 
Paton,  Henry  M.  Alexander,  Robert  L.  Maitland,  Alex- 


Jfifti)  atienue  ptesfipterian  C|)urc|b  47 

ander  Van  Renssalaer  and  his  wife,  Hooper  C.  Van 
Vorst — names  suggestive  of  service,  faithful,  zealous  and 
in  some  cases  still  continued. 

Mr.  Adolphus  Smedberg,  still  a  member  of  the 
church,  has  many  delightful  reminiscences  of  the  church 
life  during  Dr.  Alexander's  pastorate.  Mr.  Smedberg's 
grandmother  was  Mrs.  Renwick,  who  was  Jean  Jeffrey, 
one  of  the  heroines  often  named  in  Robert  Burns'  poems. 
She  was  daughter  and  granddaughter  of  Scotch  Pres- 
byterian ministers.  One  of  her  daughters  married  Ad- 
miral Charles  Wilkes,  who  was  the  captor  of  Mason  and 
Slidell  and  commander  of  the  United  States  Exploring 
Expedition,  whose  son  also  married  Mr.  Smedberg's 
sister.  Mrs.  Renwick's  son,  James,  was  a  distinguished 
professor  of  Columbia  College,  and  was  a  member  of 
the  committee  to  fix  boundaries  under  the  Ashburton 
Treaty.  Mr.  Smedberg  recalls  William  Forrest,  his  old 
Preceptor,  who  in  his  school  probably  educated  more 
business  men  in  New  York  than  any  other  one  man, 
and  his  son,  who  was  also  a  member  of  the  church,  also 
named  William,  as  characterized  irreverently  by  the 
boys,  because  of  the  color  of  his  hair,  as  Billy  Rufus, 
while  his  father  was  called  Billy  the  Conqueror.  In 
those  days,  the  New  Year's  Day's  reception  was  still  a 
prominent  feature  of  New  York's  social  life,  and  Dr. 
Alexander  always  received  on  that  day,  at  which  time 
Old  Peter,  the  Church  Sexton,  and  the  immediate  prede- 
cessor of  Mr.  Culyer,  our  Sexton  for  over  fifty  years, 
used  to  act  as  butler  at  the  receptions  at  his  house  on 
those  days.  Old  Peter  also  seems  to  have  acted  as 
beadle  at  the  church  services  and  to  have  kept  a  vigilant 
eye  upon  the  young  people  in  the  galleries.  To  this 
New  Year  Day  function  Mr.  Culyer  himself  succeeded, 
and  was  later  relieved  by  Mr.  Burton,  his  assistant. 


48  Centennial  Celebration  of  t|)e 

The  Fifth  Pastorate: 

The  pastorate  of  Dr.  Alexander  had  been  a  fruitful  one. 
The  church  was  strong,  prosperous,  and  increased  in  its 
benevolences.  It  was  difficult  to  find  a  successor  for  him 
and  a  period  of  nearly  eighteen  months  elapsed  between 
the  death  of  Dr.  Alexander  and  the  installation  of  the 
fifth  Pastor. 

Dr.  Nathan  L.  Rice,  of  the  Presbytery  of  Chicago, 
was  duly  called  and  installed  April  26,  1861.  Dr.  Gard- 
ner Spring  preached  the  sermon  and  Dr.  Potts,  the  for- 
mer pastor  of  the  church,  was  appointed  to  give  the 
charge  to  the  church,  but  being  detained,  the  Rev.  Mr. 
Rankin  took  his  place.  Dr.  Rice  was  a  Kentuckian. 
He  worked  on  a  farm  until  he  was  sixteen,  and  earned 
money  by  teaching  school  to  go  to  Center  College.  He 
studied  theology  under  Dr.  Gideon  Blackburn,  and  then 
went  to  Princeton  for  two  years.  He  took  part  in  a 
great  public  debate  in  Kentucky  on  the  subject  of  Bap- 
tism, which  excited  the  whole  Western  country  at  that 
time,  which  debate  was  published  and  widely  circulated. 
In  1855  he  had  become  so  prominent  in  the  church  that 
he  was  elected  Moderator  of  the  General  Assembly  meet- 
ing at  Nashville.  As  a  Southerner  preaching  in  a  New 
York  pulpit  during  the  Civil  War,  he  occupied  a  very 
delicate  position. 

In  the  life  of  Dr.  John  Hall,  by  his  son,  there  is  an 
incidental  comment  on  the  failing  health  of  Dr.  Rice  and 
on  his  supposed  Southern  sympathies  as  preventing  his 
undoubted  worth  and  ability  being  fully  recognized;. 
But  "on  the  whole,  by  a  discreet  avoidance  of  all  po- 
litical topics,  he  maintained  the  affection  and  esteem  of 
his  people,"  and  in  the  only  sketch  of  his  life  to  which 
we  have  had  access,  we  read  Dr.  Rice  "was  truly  a  great 
man.  He  impressed  all  who  heard  him  preach,  the  most 
cultured  and  the  most  cultivated,  with  the  sense  of  his 
power.  He  was  great  in  intellect,  in  labor,  in  goodness. 
His  most  characteristic  mental   feature  was  the  logical 


NATHAN  L.  RICE,  D.  D. 


jfiftJ)  atienue  ptestigterian  CI)utc|b  49 

faculty;  closely  connected  with  this  was  his  well-nigh 
unrivaled  power  of  analysis.  He  knew  men  and  how  to 
reach  their  hearts.  He  was  large-hearted,  generous, 
fervent." 

It  must  be  noted  that  there  had  been  a  very  strong 
party  in  the  church  in  favor  of  calling  Dr.  Shedd,  of 
Andover.  The  call  to  Dr.  Shedd,  however,  was  not 
unanimous,  and  was  declined  by  him. 

A  call  had  also  been  sent  to  the  Rev.  Dr.  B.  M. 
Palmer,  of  New  Orleans,  who  also  had  declined. 

There  were  few  matters  of  interest  to  note  during  Dr. 
Rice's  pastorate.  There  was  a  selection  of  a  parsonage; 
the  creation  of  a  "permanent  fund  in  the  hands  of  the 
Trustees" ;  the  provision  of  an  additional  pew  to  ac- 
commodate the  Pastor's  family.  There  was  some  little 
friction  in  regard  to  the  church  music;  the  faithful  sup- 
port of  the  Seventh  Avenue  Mission ;  an  increase  of  the 
assessment  on  the  pews  in  order  to  meet  the  increasing 
expenses  of  administration ;  the  addition  to  the  Pastor's 
salary  of  his  house  rent ;  the  organization  of  the  Seventh 
Avenue  Mission  into  a  separate  church;  the  purchase  of 
the  Alexander  Mission  property  on  King  Street  in  order 
to  its  permanent  location. 

At  this  time,  namely,  the  termination  of  Dr.  Rice's 
pastorate,  which  may  be  said  to  end  the  first  half  of  the 
church's  history,  the  balance  sheet  of  the  Trustees 
showed  the  annual  receipt  and  disbursement  of  less  than 
$20,000,  including  all  charges. 

Before  passing  to  the  pastorate  of  John  Hall,  which 
marked  a  great  step  forward  in  the  development  of  the 
church,  it  may  be  noted  in  summary  of  this  first  period 
that  the  church  had  been  a  power  in  respect  of  its  mem- 
bership, of  its  pulpit  message,  and  of  its  benevolence 
locally  and  through  the  church  bounds.  The  founda- 
tions laid  by  Dr.  Romeyn  and  his  faithful  elders  had 
stood  firm. 


50  Centennial  Celebration  of  tfte 

Its  pastors  were  public  men,  initiating  or  forwarding" 
measures  of  civic  and  social  reform.  Its  members  were 
men  of  influence  in  affairs,  and  loyal  to  their  denomina- 
tion. The  only  discord  or  seeming  rift  within  the  lute 
is  in  occasional  connection  with  the  subject  of  church 
music — Watts'  Psalms  or  Hymns,  chanting  vs.  harmony. 
Precentor,  female  chorister,  alto  assistant,  male  quartets, 
violoncello,  organ,  whether  trustees  or  session  should 
control  selection  of  the  choir,  are  some  of  the  heads. 
But  to  each  topic  was  given  earnest,  prayerful  considera- 
tion in  order  to  the  better  service  of  God's  house.  Dr. 
Alexander  on  one  occasion  pointed  out  the  provision 
in  the  Directory  of  Worship  "where  the  sermon  is  com- 
pared with  the  more  important  duties  of  prayer  and 
praise" !  This  illuminates  the  matter,  and  shows  how 
important  it  was  rightly  deemed  to  be. 

It  is  a  pleasure  to  record  that  the  general  participa- 
tion by  the  congregation  in  public  praise  is  still  a  feature 
of  our  worship,  and  universally  commented  upon  by 
those  who  visit  its  services. 

Dr.  Rice's  resignation  was  acted  on  by  the  Presbytery 
April  1 6,  1867,  and  the  pulpit  was  declared  vacant  by 
Samuel  D.  Alexander,  D.D. 

During  Dr.  Rice's  brief  pastorate  the  church  roll  re- 
ceived substantial  reinforcement.  Among  those  received 
on  confession  during  the  war  period  we  find  recorded 
Mrs.  Mary  C.  Auchincloss,  Charles  B.  Alexander,  Mary 
J.  Sloane,  Alexander  Maitland,  Edgar  S.  Auchincloss, 
Ewen  Mclntyre,  Lockwood  De  Forest,  William  H. 
Sturges ;  and  there  were  attracted  from  sister  churches 
such  members  as  James  Paton,  William  C.  Noyes,  Har- 
vey Fisk,  John  Sinclair  and  John  A.  Stewart. 
The  Sixth  Pastorate: 

With  the  installation  of  John  Hall,  the  church  entered 
upon  a  new  era  of  development,  prosperity  and  influence. 
Removing  soon  after  his  coming  and  for  causes  similar 
to  those  that  had  compelled   its  prior  migrations  "up- 


THE  PRESENT  CHURCH 

AT  FIFTH  AVENUE  AND  FIFTY-FIFTH  STREET 
ERECTED  1875 


jFiftt)  atjenue  pte^tipterian  CI)urci)  51 

town,"  it  entered  upon  the  present  building  in  1875, 
which  became  known  far  and  wide,  not  so  much  as  the 
Fifth  Avenue  Presbyterian  Church,  to  which  its  name 
was  legally  changed,  as  "Dr.  Hall's  Church."  His  life 
is  so  recent  and  has  been  so  sympathetically  recorded  by 
his  son,  Thomas  C.  Hall,  D.D.,  of  Union  Theological 
Seminary,  that  the  following  concise  statement  may  be 
deemed  all  that  is  appropriate  in  the  circumstances.  He 
was  born  on  the  31st  day  of  July,  1829,  in  County 
Armagh  in  the  north  of  Ireland,  and  died  September  17, 
1898.  He  was  of  Scotch-Irish  antecedents,  "and  the  en- 
vironment in  which  he  grew  up  was  stoutly  Protestant 
and  Presbyterian."  From  the  village  school  he  went  to 
a  small  classical  school,  thence  to  Belfast,  where  he  went 
on  recommendation  of  the  Presbytery  to  prepare  for  the 
ministry.  His  progress  was  steady  and  the  personal 
piety  resulting  from  family  influences  was  reinforced 
by  the  active  influences  of  the  Evangelical  movement 
then  recently  reaching  its  climax  and  particularly  domi- 
nant in  the  work  of  the  College  of  Belfast.  At  the  age 
of  sixteen  he  entered  the  theological  college,  and  upon 
graduating  he  went  into  the  home  mission  work  in  the 
West  of  Ireland,  after  an  examination  before  the  Pres- 
bytery, the  only  adverse  comment  having  been  upon  his 
shyness  while  preaching  his  trial  sermon.  His  biog- 
rapher records  the  form  of  the  criticism  of  one  of  the 
fathers  and  brethren  who  told  the  young  preacher  "He 
would  get  more  help  looking  into  the  eyes  of  those  he 
was  speaking  to  than  by  trying  to  bore  a  hole  in  the 
roof  with  his  eye."  In  a  couple  of  years,  while  home  on 
a  vacation,  he  supplied  the  pulpit  at  his  birthplace,  with 
the  result  that  a  unanimous  call  was  extended  to  him 
to  become  Pastor.  A  few  months  later  he  married  Mrs. 
Irwin,  the  widow  of  John  Irwin,  Esq.,  who  for  so  many 
years  shared  as  helpmate  and  sympathetic  co-worker  in 
his  wonderful  pastoral  life.  The  character  of  his  parish 
doubtless  developed  the  simplicity  of  the  style  which  al- 


52  Centennial  Celebration  of  tlje 

ways  characterized  his  preaching;  direct,  forcible,  prac- 
tical. In  substance,  edifying  and  stimulating  to  thought- 
ful and  highly  educated  minds,  yet  simple  and  lucid 
enough  in  form  for  the  meanest  understanding.  With- 
out dwelling  on  the  details  of  his  life  in  Ireland,  he  was 
selected  as  one  of  the  delegates  from  the  church  in  Ire- 
land to  the  General  Assembly  of  the  Northern  Presby- 
terian Church  in  the  United  States.  This  delegation 
was  formally  accredited  to  the  Old  and  New  School 
Assemblies,  to  the  Synod  of  the  Reformed  Church  and 
to  the  Synod  of  the  Covenanters.  He  was  in  the  country 
for  eight  weeks,  during  which  time  he  spoke  daily  and 
in  nearly  all  the  Eastern  and  many  of  the  Western  cities. 
The  impression  made  by  the  young  Irishman  was  pro- 
found; such  a  journal  as  Harper's  Weekly  noted:  "His 
eloquent  speech  on  the  occasion  of  his  reception  will 
never  be  forgotten  by  any  who  heard  it."  On  his  return 
to  the  East  he  preached  in  the  Fifth  Avenue  Church, 
with  the  result  that  he  was  approached  tentatively  by 
the  Session  on  the  subject  of  filling  their  vacant  pulpit, 
and  upon  his  return  to  Ireland  he  received  a  cable  ap- 
prising him  of  the  unanimous  call  extended  to  him  to 
accept  the  pastorate  of  that  church,  which  call  he  ac- 
cepted. In  Ireland  he  was  an  outspoken  Liberal.  He 
stood  for  disestablishment;  was  working  for  secular  and 
undenominational  education.  It  is  curious  to  note  in 
his  biography  by  his  son  apropos  of  our  church  music 
that  while  he  had  "no  objection  to  either  organ  or  hymns 
in  the  church,"  that  these  were  "burning  questions"  in 
the  Church  in  Ireland  at  that  time.  It  is  clear  that  it 
was  a  wrench  for  him  to  come  to  this  country,  but  once 
his  decision  had  been  made  he  threw  himself  into  the 
work  in  a  new  land  with  the  same  zeal  and  untiring 
energy  that  had  characterized  his  Irish  ministry,  with 
the  result  that  he  soon  took  that  position  of  influence 
in  the  community  and  in  the  American  Presbyterian 
Church   which  nearly  every   Pastor  of  our  church  has 


JOHN  HALL,   D.D.,  LLD. 

IN  1878 


jFiftf)  auenue  ptegtiptetian  Cf)urcJ)  53 

held.  The  estimate  of  his  services  as  Pastor  on  the 
other  side  is  printed  in  full  in  his  life  by  his  son.  We 
quote  one  or  two  of  the  sentences  merely  to  show  how 
unchanged  in  character  he  remained  throughout  his  life. 

"The  pulpit  was  the  throne  of  his  power."  "He 
preached  as  he  talked,  with  a  fine  conversational  freedom 
and  naturalness."  "He  was  the  Goldsmith  and  Franklin 
in  one  of  the  Irish  pulpit."  "He  always  exhibited  in 
debate  a  high-bred  Christian  courtesy."  "He  has  been 
conspicuous  in  the  ranks  of  his  brethren  not  merely  for 
great  eloquence  and  great  force  in  character,  but  of  a 
man  of  unblemished  integrity,  of  tried  courage  and 
benevolent,  unaffected  piety — a  man  whose  views  were 
always  tolerant  and  liberal,  his  convictions  deep  and 
hearty,  with  few  antipathies  and  many  sympathies." 

The  records  of  the  Presbytery  of  New  York,  follow- 
ing the  dissolution  of  the  pastoral  relation  of  Dr.  Rice 
at  the  April  meeting  in  1867,  show  that  the  credentials 
of  the  Rev.  John  Hall,  D.D.,  from  the  Presbytery  of 
Dublin,  Ireland,  were  presented  on  October  28,  1867. 
The  call  from  the  church  at  Fifth  Avenue  and  Nine- 
teenth Street  was  forthwith  put  into  his  hands,  and, 
being  accepted  by  him,  it  was  arranged  to  install  him 
on  the  3rd  of  November;  Dr.  William  M.  Paxton  to 
preach  the  sermon,  Dr.  John  Thomson  to  deliver  the 
charge  to  the  Pastor,  and  Dr.  Samuel  D.  Alexander  to 
deliver  the  charge  to  the  people. 

The  next  entry  by  Presbytery  was  his  death,  thirty- 
one  years  later,  after  a  pastorate  in  which  the  church 
had  passed  through  one  of  the  most  interesting  and 
fruitful  periods  of  its  existence.  The  differences  be- 
tween the  Old  and  New  Schools  are  little  known  to  the 
church  members  of  to-day.  When  the  church  moved  to 
Nineteenth  Street,  under  Dr.  Alexander,  there  were  men 
of  both  schools  in  the  congregation.  Dr.  Hall  was  not 
identified  with  either  side  in  the  dispute,  but  was  an 
earnest  advocate  of  that   reunion   which  took  place  in 


54  Centennial  Celebration  of  tfte 

1869.  His  preaching  soon  crowded  the  building  at 
Nineteenth  Street  so  that  camp  chairs  were  placed  down 
every  aisle.  Henry  Ward  Beecher  called  him  "the  young 
Irishman  of  the  golden  tongue."  More  perhaps  than  any 
other  pastor  in  New  York  City  he  systematized  the  work 
of  pastoral  visitation.  Every  home,  even  every  office,  of 
members  of  his  congregation  saw  and  knew  his  face.  It 
has  been  stated  that  he  had  no  time  for  social  engage- 
ments, but  he  always  had  time  for  his  pastoral  work. 
Even  when  in  failing  physical  health,  he  would  overtax 
his  strength  by  climbing  the  stairs  of  some  building  high 
up  in  which  some  needy  member  of  his  flock  lay  in  need 
of  his  ministrations.  He  had  around  him  a  wonderful  set 
of  officers,  elders,  deacons  and  trustees.  Take  at  random 
one  of  the  year  books  published  during  his  pastorate, 
that  of  1882,  and  the  following  list  of  names  is  an  in- 
spiration : 

ELDERS. 

William  Walker  Cornelius  R.  Agnew 

James  M.  Halstead  John  Sinclair 

Henry  G.  DeForest  John  Paton 

Henry  Day  Malcolm  Graham 

Jacob  D.  Vermilye  John  H.  Mortimer 

William  L.  Skidmore  William  Campbell 

James  Eraser  Hooper  C.  Van  Vorst 
Robert  Bliss 

DEACONS. 

Frederick  W.  WnrrrEMORE  Edgar  S.  Auchincloss 

Alexander  Maitland  Ewen  McIntyre 

John  Sloane 

BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES. 

Robert  L.  Stuart,  President  Charles  Lanier 

John  H.  Mortimer,  Treasurer  Henry  A.  Hurlbut 

Robert  Bliss,  Stated  Clerk  Birdseye  Blakeman 

Robert  L.  Stuart  John  A.  Livingston 

Parker  Handy  John  S.  Kennedy 

Willlam  D.  Sloane  Jacob  Campbell 


ifiCtl)  atjenue  pte0tipterian  Cl)urc[)  55 

It  was  soon  manifest  that  the  building  at  Nineteenth 
Street  was  inadequate,  and  Mr.  Robert  Bonner  and  Mr. 
Robert  L.  Stuart  were  perhaps  the  prime  movers  in  the 
movement  which  was  intended  to  secure  a  new  building, 
which  "in  extent  and  character  should  be  worthy  of 
Presbyterianism  in  the  Metropolitan  City  of  the  East." 
The  financial  problem  undertaken  and  solved  far  exceed- 
ed in  magnitude  any  of  the  previous  operations  of  the 
church  as  a  corporation.  Prior  to  entering  the  new 
church,  there  was  subscribed  $328,996.09;  $520,000  was 
secured  on  the  sale  of  191  pews,  and  by  the  energy  of 
the  wheel-horses  of  the  church,  it  was  not  long  before 
the  entire  debt  was  canceled,  and  the  property  held  free 
and  clear.  There  is  a  minute  in  the  records  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees  commenting  upon  the  gifts  of  Mr. 
Robert  Bonner  toward  the  erection  of  the  church,  as 
being  the  largest  then  known  gifts  for  church  extension 
in  the  history  of  the  American  Church.  In  a  personal 
note  of  1877,  printed  in  the  life  of  Dr.  Hall,  the  total 
of  Mr.  Bonner's  gifts  is  placed  at  $131,000.  The  old 
church,  by  the  generosity  of  certain  of  the  Trustees  and 
Col.  Elliott  F.  Shepard,  then  a  member  of  the  Central 
Church,  was  removed  and  re-erected  on  West  Fifty- 
seventh  Street,  where  it  still  stands  with  but  slight  altera- 
tion of  appearance.  Mr.  Wm.  Rutherford  Mead,  of 
McKim  Mead  &  White,  recalls  that  this  was  his  own 
first  important  architectural  work. 

The  outside  activities  of  Dr.  Hall  are  still  matters  of 
common  knowledge.  His  services  to  the  church  at  large, 
as  president  of  the  Board  of  Home  Missions,  need  no  re- 
hearsal. To  the  City  of  New  York  his  services  as  Chan- 
cellor of  the  New  York  University  have  been  adequately 
commemorated.  In  the  Union  Seminary  before  the  pe- 
riod of  misunderstanding  with  the  General  Assembly  he 
served  faithfully  as  director.  He  also  gave  to  his  duties 
as  Director  of  Princeton  Seminary  and  as  Trustee  of 
Princeton  College  painstaking  attention,  and  had  much  to 


56  Centennial  Celebration  of  tfte 

do  with  securing  James  McCosh  for  the  Presidency  of 
that  institution.  In  the  Presbytery  of  New  York  he  was 
faithful  in  attendance,  always  dignified  in  his  forensic  du- 
ties, and  while  apt  to  lose  advantage  in  debate  by  over- 
looking the  technicalities  of  parliamentary  law  it  in- 
creased the  affection  of  his  brethren  that  this  was  always 
due  to  his  keeping  his  mind  and  attention  primarily 
fastened  on  what  to  him  was  the  chief  object  of  Presby- 
terial  importance,  namely,  the  advancement  of  the  spirit- 
ual interest  of  the  churches  in  the  city. 

The  Warszawiak  case,  with  its  numerous  appeals,  re- 
sulted, as  an  ecclesiastical  cause  celebre,  in  a  situation 
where  it  would  have  puzzled  Solomon  himself  to  decide 
whether  the  last  deliverance  of  the  Assembly  restored 
this  excommunicated  Hebrew  to  any  of  his  privileges  in 
the  church. 

It  was  toward  the  end  of  Dr.  Hall's  pastorate  that  this 
celebrated  case  arose.  In  his  son's  biography  of  Dr. 
Hall  there  are  a  number  of  little  side-lights  thrown  on 
the  doctor's  interest  in  the  conversion  of  the  Jews  to 
Christianity,  which  was  a  darling  wish  of  his  mother, 
and  the  fulfillment  of  which  she  seemed  to  have  thought 
rendered  more  likely  by  his  acceptance  of  a  call  to  the 
United  States.  So  for  many  years  the  doctor  had  been 
interested  in  the  work  of  the  city  missions  for  the  Jews. 
At  the  time  this  case  arose  Warszawiak  had  applied  to 
the  New  York  Presbytery  to  be  taken  under  its  care  as 
a  candidate  for  the  Gospel  ministry.  He  was  a  man  of 
brilliant  parts  and  apparently  of  persuasive  eloquence, 
and  preached  to  crowded  houses  of  Hebrews,  and  it  was 
supposed  that  he  was  producing  great  results  in  the  con- 
version of  those  who  attended  his  services.  The  charge 
against  him  before  the  Session  of  the  Fifth  Avenue 
Church  was  practically  that  of  hypocrisy,  in  that  while 
seeking  to  be  taken  under  the  care  of  Presbytery  as  a 
candidate  for  the  Gospel  Ministry  he  was  leading  an 
immoral  and  un-Christian  life. 


jFiftl)  auenue  prestfipterian  Cfturcjj  57 

Dr.  Hall's  faith  in  the  young  man  was  of  that  loyal 
kind  that  hostile  evidence  fails  to  shake,  and  it  is  prob- 
ably true  that  he  never  believed  in  the  justice  of  his  con- 
viction by  the  Session,  which  was  affirmed  by  the  Pres- 
bytery, while  the  Synod  and  Assembly,  after  first  order- 
ing a  new  trial,  finally  decided  the  matter  had  lasted  long 
enough  and  declared  it  at  an  end. 

Dr.  Hall's  health  failed  during  the  last  few  years  of 
his  life.  He  was  troubled  with  some  heart  weakness. 
But  he  would  not  give  in,  nor  diminish  his  pastoral 
activity.  It  was  proposed  to  secure  an  assistant  for  him ; 
but  the  proposition  seems  to  have  been  more  of  a  shock 
to  him  than  an  occasion  of  relief,  for  it  led  to  his  offer- 
ing his  resignation,  in  which,  however,  his  people,  upon 
whose  affections  he  had  so  strong  a  hold,  refused  to 
acquiesce. 

Still,  while  he  withdrew  the  resignation,  he  was  com- 
pelled to  relax  his  efforts,  and  to  take  what  was  hoped 
would  be  but  a  vacation  for  recuperation. 

The  communion  service  of  May,  1898,  was  the  last 
at  which  he  was  able  to  preside.  He  went  abroad  in 
June,  longing  to  revisit  his  birthplace  and  the  sisters 
who  still  survived.  This  desire  was  gratified  only  so 
far  as  his  reaching  Ireland  was  concerned.  He  was 
unable  to  get  as  far  as  Ballygorman,  and  died  at  Craw- 
fordsburn  Road  on  the  17th  day  of  September,  1898. 
There  were  simple  funeral  services  in  Bangor.  The  fol- 
lowing pages  from  his  son's  biography  seem  appropriate 
for  quotation: 

"The  funeral  services  in  New  York  were  on  the  morn- 
ing of  October  the  4th,  1898,  in  the  Fifth  Avenue  Pres- 
byterian Church,  into  which  so  much  of  my  father's  life 
had  been  built.  Dr.  John  Mcintosh  of  Philadelphia,  Dr. 
Wm.  M.  Paxton  of  Princeton  and  the  moderator  of 
the  General  Assembly  of  that  year,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Rad- 
cliffe  took  charge  of  the  services,  and  paid  tributes  to 
,the  worth  and  services  of  him  whom  God  had  taken.    On 


58  Centennial  Celebration  of  tfte 

Wednesday  morning  the  remains  were  taken  to  Wood- 
lawn  and  laid  to  rest  beside  the  beloved  nephew,  the 
Rev.  John  Magowan,  and  near  his  stepson,  Major  John 
Irwin.  The  final  arrangements  have  not  yet  been  made, 
and  only  a  simple  head-stone,  with  a  reference  to  Daniel 
12 :3,  marks  the  place  where  lies  the  sacred  dust. 

"Great  was  the  outburst  of  real  sorrow  when  the  news 
spread  that  the  great  preacher  and  faithful  pastor  was 
to  be  seen  and  heard  no  more  on  earth.  In  London, 
Edinburgh,  Dublin,  Belfast,  Glasgow,  as  well  as  all  the 
principal  cities  of  the  United  States,  memorial  sermons 
were  preached,  and  memorial  services  were  held. 

"Great  numbers  of  ecclesiastical  bodies  on  both  sides 
of  the  water,  Methodists,  Baptists,  Congregational, 
Episcopalian  and  others,  joined  in  tributes  of  esteem  and 
sorrow.  Nearly  all  the  English  written  press  on  both 
sides  of  the  Atlantic  and  many  foreign  journals  con- 
tained estimates  of  the  power  and  value  of  the  life  that 
had  passed  away.  The  London  Times  paid  a  warm  trib- 
ute to  the  influence  of  the  life  that  was  closed ;  and  what 
marked  nearly  all  these  estimates  was  the  prominence 
given  to  the  directness  and  simplicity  of  the  life  and 
work.  It  was  agreed  that  the  elements  that  went  to 
make  up  my  father's  character  were  not  unduly  com- 
plex, yet  poise,  industry,  strength  of  conviction  and  mas- 
terly control  of  all  those  elements  gave  extraordinary 
force  to  the  life," 

The  following  tablet  was  erected  to  his  memory  by  his 
congregation : 

Rev.  John  Hall,  D.D.,  LL.D. 

Bom  County  Armagh,  Ireland, 

July  31,  1829. 

Died  County  Down,  Ireland, 

September  17,  1898. 

For  Forty-nine  Years 

A  Presbyterian  Minister. 

Pastor  of  this  Church 


iFiftj)  atienue  prestipterian  Cjjutcl)  59 

From  November  3,  1867,  to  September  17,  1898. 

"There  remaineth  therefore  a  rest 

to  the  people  of  God." 

The  list  of  accessions  during  his  pastorate  is  very- 
large,  and  too  many  would  have  to  be  the  citations  to 
warrant  any  separate  enumeration.  Our  own  and  sev- 
eral of  our  sister  churches  still  enjoy  the  services  of 
men  and  women  converted  by  the  Gospel  preaching  of 
John  Hall  or  drawn  into  activity  here  from  churches  all 
over  the  land.  Few  Presbyterian  pastorates  have  ex- 
ceeded his  in  accumulating  "parish  power"  and  in  lib- 
erating it  in  the  channels  of  church  work  or  of  church 
giving. 

Some  of  the  events  of  parish  interest  during  Dr.  Hall's 
pastorate  are  briefly  as  follows : 

In  October,  1877,  there  was  a  resolution  for  the  sys- 
tematic visitation  of  the  parish  by  the  Elders,  which  was 
particularly  commended  by  the  Presbytery  in  reviewing 
the  minutes  of  the  church. 

In  1878  a  committee  was  appointed  which  ultimately 
acquired  St.  George's  Chapel  for  the  Fourteenth  Street 
Mission. 

In  January,  1879,  attention  was  called  to  the  long 
service  of  William  Walker,  who  had  joined  the  church 
in  1829  and  had  been  an  Elder  since  1853.  At  his  re- 
quest a  separate  Treasurer  of  Session  was  appointed, 
namely,  John  Sloane,  who  was  succeeded  later  by  James 
R.  Jesup,  and  he  in  turn  by  our  present  Treasurer,  H. 
Edwards  Rowland. 

In  December,  1882,  it  was  decided  to  increase  the  Ses- 
sion to  twenty. 

In  January,  1883,  the  name  of  the  "King  Street  Mis- 
sion" was  changed  to  the  "Alexander  Mission  in  King 
Street";  and  a  resolution  was  adopted  with  regard  to 
the  missions  of  the  church  that  the  ministry  in  charge 
should  seek  to  train  persons  for  the  offices  of  elders, 
deacons  and  teachers,  with  a  view  to  their  separate  or- 


6o  Centennial  Celebration  of  tfte 

ganization  as  independent  and  separate  churches,  a  pol- 
icy constantly  reiterated  by  the  Session  from  time  to  time 
but  very  difficult  to  achieve,  because  of  the  constant 
change  in  the  personnel  in  attendance  on  the  services, 
who  drift  from  place  to  place  as  their  circumstances  re- 
quire. 

There  were  several  attempts  made  to  modify  and  im- 
prove the  singing  of  the  church.  Thus  in  February, 
1883,  there  was  a  joint  resolution  to  improve  the  singing 
"by  having  four  voices  sit  (sic.)  in  the  body  of  the 
church  trained  in  singing  psalmody  to  assist  in  leading 
the  congregation  under  the  direction  of  the  precentor." 

Shortly  afterward  there  was  a  resolution  that  Elders 
Day,  Fraser,  Sinclair  and  Graham,  and  Deacon  Sloane 
be  "a  committee  on  the  services  of  song  with  a  view  to 
their  conferring  with  members  endowed  with  musical 
gifts  and  so  organize  them  as  to  contribute  to  greater 
unanimity,  harmony  and  spirit  in  the  praises  of  the  serv- 
ice." (The  report  of  the  committee,  however,  was  not 
accepted.) 

March  6,  1890,  it  was  resolved  to  engage  several  per- 
sons to  assist  in  the  singing. 

June  4,  1885,  an  Annual  Year  Book  was  decided  up- 
on, the  idea  being  that  it  should  be  published  every  year 
with  the  addition  of  the  names  of  those  who  had  joined 
during  the  year,  with  their  addresses. 

That  same  year  authority  was  given  to  procure  suita- 
ble accommodations  for  the  Chinese  Sunday  School,  20 
West  Fifty-ninth  Street,  and  October  of  that  year  it  was 
ordered  that  thereafter  it  should  be  "one  of  the  mission 
schools  of  the  church." 

In  March,  1887,  it  was  decided  to  discontinue  the 
Seventh  Avenue  Mission.  It  was  afterward  organized 
into  a  separate  church. 

At  this  same  time  a  committee  was  appointed  to  see 
where  a  Sunday  School  might  be  organized  "where  the 


jFiftf)  atjenuc  pregfigterian  Cftutc!)  6i 

younger  members  of  the  congregation  should  be  in- 
vited to  work  as  teachers,"  and  it  was  the  labors  of  this 
committee  which  subsequently  blossomed  out  into  the 
organization  of  the  Young  People's  Association,  to 
which  the  church  is  so  deeply  indebted  for  so  much  of 
activity  and  for  so  great  accomplishment  of  practical 
good  in  the  Sixty-third  Street  neighborhood. 

At  about  this  same  time  there  was  a  collection  or- 
dered to  help  defray  the  expenses  of  Evangelical  services 
in  Cooper  Institute  on  Sabbath  evenings  during  the 
Winter. 

In  January  of  1888  a  committee  was  appointed  to 
"devise  methods  of  providing  fresh  air  relief  for  those 
attending  at  the  various  missions." 

On  May  31,  1888,  the  venerable  William  Walker  hav- 
ing died,  Mr.  Silas  B.  Brownell  was  elected  to  succeed 
him  in  the  office  of  Stated  Clerk,  the  responsible  and 
onerous  duties  of  which  he  has  since  continuously  and 
faithfully  discharged. 

In  November,  1891,  the  Session  recorded  the  opening 
of  the  Young  People's  Association  House,  at  the  corner 
of  First  Avenue  and  Sixty-first  Street. 

January  6,  1896,  it  was  ordered,  at  the  request  of  the 
Young  People's  Association,  that  the  sacraments  be 
statedly  administered  at  Sixty-third  Street.  While  there 
was  repeated  talk  from  time  to  time  of  an  assistant  to 
the  pastor,  it  was  not  until  after  Dr.  Hall's  death  and  in 
September  27,  1900,  that  one  was  actually  engaged.  It 
was  at  that  time  that  the  Rev.  Ernest  F.  Hall  was  em- 
ployed as  assistant,  and  about  two  years  later,  upon  his 
entering  the  foreign  mission  service,  December  16,  1902, 
Rev.  George  H.  Trull  succeeded  him,  and  when  Mr. 
Trull  was  chosen  as  Secretary  of  the  Foreign  Board  for 
Young  People's  Work,  the  Rev.  Edwin  F.  Hallenbeck, 
D.D.,  was  called  from  Binghamton  and  continues  to  be 
associated  with  our  pastor  in  the  parish  work. 


62  Centennial  Celebration  of  tf)e 

The  Seventh  Pastorate: 

To  succeed  such  a  pastor  as  John  Hall,  and  over  so 
great  a  church,  it  v^^as  a  very  serious  task  to  find  a  new 
leader.  It  was  not  until  May,  1900,  that  he  was  se- 
cured. 

In  the  meantime  there  was  naturally  some  disintegra- 
tion— many  took  letters  to  sister  churches.  It  seemed 
unlikely  that  a  man  could  be  found  who  would  satisfy 
the  various  requirements  of  a  congregation  that  was 
necessarily  heterogeneous. 

The  Lord  raised  up  the  man  in  George  Tybout 
Purves,  then  at  Princeton,  who  gave  the  last  year  of  his 
marvelous  powers,  while  suffering  almost  daily  physical 
agonies,  to  a  concentrated  and  loving  pastoral  service 
that  held  the  church  together,  healed  what  wounds  there 
were,  re-enlisted  the  workers  in  activity,  and  at  the  same 
time  gave  to  our  pulpit  a  new  hold  on  the  ear  and  heart 
of  the  public  by  the  delivery  of  sermons  of  the  like  of 
which  few  pulpits  in  this  or  any  country  have  been  the 
source. 

We  take  the  liberty  of  adopting,  nearly  unchanged, 
the  sketch  of  his  life  prepared  by  Dr.  J.  H.  Dulles  for 
the  Princeton  University  Bulletin  of  December,  1901. 

George  Tybout  Purves  was  bom  in  Philadelphia,  Sep- 
tember 27,  1852,  his  parents  being  William  and  Anna 
(Kennedy)  Purves.  He  was  of  Scotch  descent,  and  the- 
name,  Purves,  may  be  seen  any  year  on  the  rolls  of  the 
ministry  of  the  Scotch  and  the  Irish  Presbyterian 
Churches.  He  received  his  preparatory  education  in  the 
school  established,  and  for  many  years  successfully  con- 
ducted, by  John  W.  Paries,  D.D.,  who  belonged  to  the 
older  regime  of  schoolmasters,  exerting  a  personal  in- 
fluence over  their  pupils  scarcely  possible  in  the  more 
fully  organized  and  more  highly  developed  secondary 
schools  of  the  present  day.  Very  great  industry  and 
more  than  average  ability  marked  the  school  career  of 
young  Purves.    The  religious  tone  of  his  home  training 


GEORGE  T.  PURVES,   D.D.,  LL.D. 


iFiftI)  atJenue  pregliptcrian  Cfturcft  63 

is  sufficiently  indicated  by  the  fact  that  at  the  early  age 
of  fourteen  he  made  a  public  profession  of  his  Christian 
faith,  uniting  with  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of 
Philadelphia,  just  before  the  close  of  the  pastorate  of 
the  Rev.  Albert  Barnes. 

Entering  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  he  gradu- 
ated from  that  institution  in  1872.  As  a  student  he  took 
special  interest  in  the  philosophical  and  linguistic  depart- 
ments of  the  curriculum,  exhibiting  at  the  same  time  a 
special  aptitude  for  public  speech.  His  college  career 
foreshadowed  his  later  attainments  as  a  public  orator. 
After  his  graduation  he  spent  a  year  at  home  in  the 
further  prosecution  of  his  study  of  various  languages, 
particularly  Greek,  and  of  general  literature.  It  was  not 
until  the  fall  of  this  year,  1872,  that  he  finally  decided  to 
enter  the  ministry. 

He  entered  the  Theological  Seminary  at  Princeton  in 
1873,  graduating  three  years  later.  He  was  soon  noted 
as  one  of  the  most  cheerful  as  well  as  most  studious  of 
the  young  men  gathered  in  the  Seminary,  and  early  se- 
cured the  esteem  of  his  instructors  and  the  love  of  his 
fellow  students.  In  the  same  class  with  him  was  Prof. 
Warfield,  afterward  his  colleague  in  the  Seminary  fac- 
ulty. He  was  one  of  those  young  men  with  a  bright  in- 
tellect, a  warm  heart  and  an  engaging  manner,  for  whom 
it  was  easy  to  predict  a  life  of  distinguished  usefulness. 
His  companions  of  that  period  had  no  other  expectation, 
an  expectation  abundantly  verified.  He  returned  to  the 
Seminary  for  a  fourth  year  of  post-graduate  study  of 
Biblical  Theology  and  New  Testament  Exegesis,  under 
Professors  William  Henry  Green  and  Caspar  Wistar 
Hodge.  The  influence  of  the  latter  over  him  was  very 
great  and  did  much  to  determine  the  trend  of  his  later 
studies. 

He  left  Princeton  in  April,  1877,  was  ordained  on  the 
27th  of  that  month,  and  at  the  same  time  installed  pastor 
of  the  Wayne  Presbyterian  Church,  near  Philadelphia. 


64  Centennial  Celebration  of  tije 

After  three  years  of  successful  work  in  this  relatively- 
small  field,  he  was  called  to  the  Boundary  Avenue 
Church  of  Baltimore,  which  he  served  for  six  years, 
when  the  summons  came  to  enter  a  still  wider  sphere 
of  activity  in  the  city  of  Pittsburgh.  He  was  pastor  of 
the  First  Church  of  that  city  from  1886  to  1892.  He 
was  eminently  successful  in  these  pastorates.  Each  re- 
quired a  higher  development  of  his  powers  than  its 
predecessor  and  he  more  than  met  the  requirement,  until 
in  the  last  he  had  gained  an  established  reputation  as 
one  of  the  foremost  preachers  and  most  useful  pastors  of 
the  Presbyterian  Church. 

Dr.  Purves  had,  meanwhile,  steadily  pursued  a  course 
of  special  study  in  apostolic  and  patristric  literature. 
This  was  due  to  his  scholarly  tastes,  which  could  not- be 
satisfied  fully  in  the  ordinary  duties  of  a  pastor.  One 
result  of  these  studies  is  seen  in  his  first  book,  "The 
Testimony  of  Justin  Martyr  to  Early  Qiristianity,"  con- 
taining the  Stone  Lectures  delivered  before  Princeton 
Seminary  in  1888.  The  chair  of  Church  History  in  this 
Seminary  being  vacant  at  this  time,  Dr.  Purves  was 
called  to  fill  it,  but  declined  the  call.  He  had  been  but 
two  years  in  his  Pittsburgh  parish,  and  did  not  feel 
justified  in  leaving  it,  strongly  as  he  felt  the  claims  of 
his  alma  mater  upon  his  services.  During  the  year  1891- 
92  he  was  the  acting  professor  of  theology  in  the  West- 
em  Theological  Seminary  in  Allegheny,  adding  this  duty 
to  his  pastoral  labors. 

In  the  fall  of  1891  Prof.  Caspar  Wistar  Hodge,  who 
for  thirty-one  years  had  filled  the  chair  of  New  Testa- 
ment Literature  and  Exegesis,  died,  lamented  by  a  host 
of  Princeton  students,  who  owed  much  of  their  interest 
in  the  study  of  the  New  Testament  to  his  guidance  and 
instruction.  The  eyes  of  the  Directors  and  friends  of 
Princeton  Seminary  turned  at  once  to  the  Pittsburgh 
pastor.  He  was  duly  elected  to  the  vacant  chair.  Every 
pressure  was  brought  to  bear  on  him  by  his  attached 


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congregation  to  induce  him  to  remain  with  them;  but 
the  call  was  too  urgent  and  he  accepted  it.  It  was  to  a 
branch  of  biblical  study  that  had  always  had  a  special 
fascination  for  him,  to  which  he  had  devoted  much  time 
amid  the  pressing  cares  of  his  pastoral  work;  a  call  to 
sit  in  the  chair  left  vacant  by  the  death  of  his  most 
loved  instructor,  and  a  call  uttered  in  much  distress  by 
the  institution  in  whose  welfare  he  was  profoundly  in- 
terested and  whose  prosperity  he  deemed  of  the  utmost 
importance  to  the  church  and  to  the  cause  of  truth. 

Some  of  his  friends  thought  he  had  made  a  mistake 
to  bury  his  pulpit  powers,  or  even  to  subordinate  them 
to  any  other  line  of  activity.  Bury  his  ten  talents  he 
could  not.  Indeed,  he  preached  little  less  often  after 
coming  to  Princeton  than  he  had  done  as  a  pastor  in 
Pittsburgh.  He  was  at  once  engaged  by  the  University 
to  occupy  the  pulpit  in  Marquand  Chapel  about  once  a 
month  during  the  academic  year.  This  he  did  for  a 
while.  Later  a  series  of  special  evening  services  in  the 
Second  Presbyterian  Church  of  Princeton  were  arranged 
with  Dr.  Purves  as  the  preacher,  with  the  design  of 
awakening  a  religious  interest  among  the  people  of  the 
town  as  well  as  among  the  students  of  the  University. 
In  this  they  were  reasonably  successful,  if  not  as  much 
so  as  full  congregations  and  their  eager  attention  might 
have  led  one  to  expect. 

In  1896,  the  pulpit  of  the  First  Church  of  Princeton 
becoming  vacant.  Dr.  Purves  acceded  to  the  request  of 
the  congregation  to  become  their  acting  pastor,  and  three 
years  later  he  was  elected  and  installed  pastor  of  the 
church.  This  relation  was  to  be  of  brief  duration,  for 
early  in  the  following  year,  1900,  he  was  called  to  the 
pastorate  of  the  Fifth  Avenue  Presbyterian  Church,  of 
New  York  City,  that  had  not  yet  secured  a  successor  to 
Dr.  John  Hall.  He  was  persuaded  that  it  was  his  duty 
to  accept  this  call,  in  view  of  the  condition  of  that  par- 
ticular church  and  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  New 


66  Centennial  Celebration  of  tl)e 

York.  He  entered  upon  his  new  duties  with  his  usual 
hopefulness  and  ardor,  [He  was  installed  May  22; 
President  Francis  L.  Patton  preached  the  sermon;  Rob- 
ert Russell  Booth,  D.D.,  gave  the  charge  to  the  Pastor; 
Wilton  Merle  Smith,  D.D.,  gave  the  charge  to  the  peo- 
ple.] It  was  not  to  be  a  long  service.  Disease  had  laid 
hold  of  him  before  he  left  Princeton.  Its  inroads  were 
slow  but  steady.  Yet  there  was  no  alarming  indication 
until  almost  at  the  end.  He  died  of  heart  failure  on 
Wednesday,  September  24,  1901.  A  funeral  service  was 
held  in  his  church,  whence  the  body  was  brought  to 
Princeton,  and,  after  a  brief  service  in  the  First  Church, 
was  interred  in  the  Princeton  cemetery.  Dr.  Purves  was 
a  Director  of  Princeton  Seminary  from  1883  to  1892, 
when  called  to  its  faculty,  and  was  made  a  Director 
again  on  going  to  New  York.  At  the  time  of  his  death 
he  was  a  Trustee  of  Princeton  University,  as  well  as  of 
Lincoln  University,  Pa,  He  was  also  Moderator  of  the 
Presbytery  of  New  York,  He  received  the  degree  of 
D,D.  from  Washington  and  Jefferson  College  in  1888, 
and  from  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  in  1894,  and 
the  degree  of  LL.D.  from  Lafayette  College  in  1895. 
Beside  the  volume  mentioned  above,  he  published  in 
1900  a  work  entitled,  "Christianity  in  the  Apostolic  Age/' 
one  of  the  hand-books  in  the  Historical  Series  for  Bible 
Students,  issued  by  the  Scribners.  He  also  published 
numerous  addresses  and  articles  in  the  religious  period- 
icals of  the  Presbyterian  Church, 

It  cannot  be  doubted  that  Dr.  Purves  had  gifts  of  a 
high  order  and  that  he  had  extraordinary  ability  to  use 
these  gifts.  His  energy  was  unbounded.  He  was  restive 
under  a  load  of  labor  that  would  fully  occupy  most  men. 
It  is  not  always  that  the  minister  of  the  Word  of  God 
makes  the  impression  on  his  hearers  that  he  enjoys  ex- 
ercising that  function  of  his  holy  office.  Dr.  Purves 
made  this  impression.  He  could  scarcely  help  being  con- 
scious that  he  was  heard  gladly,  yet  this  never  lessened 


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his  sense  of  the  solemnity  of  speaking  to  men  on  the 
vital  concerns  of  their  souls.  No  one  could  be  more 
jovial  than  he  out  of  the  pulpit,  and  no  one  more  serious 
in  it.  His  career  in  the  pulpit  justifies  the  judgment 
that  he  was  a  great  preacher.  The  style  of  his  sermons 
was  so  well  adapted  to  the  universal  need  of  men  that 
he  was  heard  with  equal  pleasure  and  profit,  whether  he 
spoke  in  the  Seminary  Chapel,  the  University  Chapel  or 
the  First  Church. 

The  high  character  of  Dr.  Purves'  endowments  was 
manifest  in  his  work  as  a  teacher,  as  it  was  in  his  pulpit 
ministrations.  He  was  peculiarly  well  equipped  for  suc- 
cessful teaching.  He  had  a  clear,  strong  mind.  He 
loved  study,  especially  the  study  of  the  New  Testament. 
He  was  deeply  interested  in  young  men,  particularly  in 
young  men  who  had  devoted  themselves  to  the  ministry. 
To  an  unusual  degree  he  secured  their  affection.  He 
was  a  living  example  of  what  a  minister  ought  to  be. 
He  readily  gained  friends,  A  great  host  of  them,  from 
all  intellectual  and  social  classes,  mourned  his  loss.  He 
did  a  great  work.  He  finished  his  work.  His  life  was 
too  intense  to  last  through  the  three  score  and  ten  years 
of  our  allotted  pilgrimage ;  but  into  less  than  two  score 
and  ten  he  compressed  a  long  life  of  labor  and  love,  of 
unselfish  service  for  his  Divine  Master  and  his  fellow- 
men." 

The  following  tablet  was  erected  in  the  vestibule  of 
the  church: 

In  Memory  of 

George  Tybout  Purves,  D.D.,  LL.D. 

Born  Philadelphia,  September  27,  1852. 

Ordained  to  the  Gospel  Ministry 

April  27th,  1877. 

Professor  of 

New  Testament  Literature  and  Exegesis, 

Princeton  Theological  Seminary. 

Installed  Pastor  of  this  Church 


68  Centennial  Celebration  of  tht 

May  22,   1900. 

Died  New  York,  September  24,  1901. 

"A  Servant  of  God  and  of  the  Lord 

Jesus  Christ." 

The  Eighth  (and  Present)  Pastorate: 

So  quickly  did  the  candle  of  Dr.  Purves'  life  burn  out 
that  it  is  noted  in  the  report  of  the  Session's  Committee 
on  the  Summer  services  of  that  year  that  the  day  after 
they  had  heard  from  him  that  he  would  be  in  the  pulpit 
September  22nd  they  learned  of  his  death. 

So  sweet  had  been  his  influence,  so  healing  his  min- 
istry, that  the  choice  of  his  successor  was  made  without 
division  of  sentiment  and  with  remarkable  expedition. 
The  unanimous  call  of  the  church,  dated  January  15, 
1902,  was  extended  to  J.  Ross  Stevenson,  D.D.,  Pro- 
fessor of  Church  History  in  McCormick  Theological 
Seminary  in  Qiicago. 

The  Committee  had  resorted  to  the  plan  of  addressing 
to  about  one  hundred  leading  ministers  of  our  denomina- 
tion in  this  country,  in  Canada  and  in  Great  Britain  the 
following  letter: 

"Dear  Sir:  Knowing  the  kind  interest  which  you 
have  in  the  Fifth  Avenue  Presbyterian  Church,  and  be- 
lieving that  you  earnestly  desire  that  it  shall  continue 
to  be  one  of  the  centers  for  religious  teaching,  and  one 
of  the  foremost  churches  in  the  denomination,  .  .  . 
we  would  welcome  from  you,  whatever  names  it  may 
occur  to  you  that  it  would  be  well  for  us  to  receive.  Any 
communication  which  you  might  be  willing  to  send  on 
this  subject,  we  would  consider  strictly  confidential. 
May  we  not  ask  your  prayers,  that  we  shall  be  divinely 
led  in  the  choice  of  a  Pastor,  who  shall  carry  on  the 
work  which  Drs.  Hall  and  Purves  have  so  recently  been 
called  away  from." 

They  were  astounded  at  the  degree  to  which  these 
replies  focussed  on  Dr.   Stevenson.     Providentially  in- 


J.   ROSS    STEVENSON,    D.D. 


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dicated,  unanimously  called  and  universally  loved,  he  is 
now  the  Centennial  Pastor  of  our  church. 

It  is  essential  to  complete  this  historical  sketch  that 
his  life  and  pastorate  be  included,  without  infringing 
the  delicate  rules  that  restrict  the  friendly  biographer 
of  one  still  living. 

J.  Ross  Stevenson  was  born  at  Ligonier,  Pa.,  March 
the  1st,  1866.  His  father,  the  Rev.  Ross  Stevenson, 
D.D.,  was  born  in  Tyrone  County,  Ireland,  and  came 
over  here  as  a  youth,  and  through  the  influence  of  Chris- 
tian friends  was  educated  for  the  ministry,  and  labored 
with  all  the  intensity  and  eagerness  of  his  Scotch-Irish 
nature  for  fifty  years  in  the  ministry  of  the  Word  among 
the  people  of  Western  Pennsylvania.  His  mother,  Mar- 
tha Harbison,  belonged  to  that  splendid  old  Western 
Pennsylvania  stock  which  has  developed  such  a  sturdy 
race  of  people  and  such  earnest  and  stanch  Presbyteri- 
ans. Ross  was  next  to  the  youngest  in  a  family  of  six 
sons  and  one  daughter.  He  grew  up  among  the  inter- 
ests and  privileges  of  a  country  minister's  home  life.  Of 
the  brothers,  three  studied  for  the  ministry.  His  pre- 
paratory course  was  taken  at  the  old  Canonsburg  Acad- 
emy, the  former  seat  of  Washington  and  Jefferson  Col- 
lege. He  graduated  from  Washington  and  Jefferson  in 
1886.  This  college  conferred  the  degree  of  D.D.  on 
three  of  our  pastors.  Dr.  James  W.  Alexander,  Dr.  John 
Hall  and  Dr.  Purves.  It  is  said  that  he  never  missed  a 
single  recitation  in  all  his  school  or  college  life  from  ill- 
ness, and  was  never  tardy  to  any  school  appointment. 
He  lived  at  home  during  all  his  college  life,  and  neigh- 
bors have  testified  that  his  starting  for  school  was  so 
regular  and  exact  an  event  that  they  reckoned  the  time 
by  it.  He  graduated  from  McCormick  Theological  Sem- 
inary in  1889,  and  studied  in  the  University  of  Berlin 
through  the  next  year.  Upon  his  return  he  was  called 
to  the  Broadway  Presbyterian  Church  of  Sedalia,  Mo., 
where  he  remained  for  three  years.     During  that  time 


70  Centennial  Celebration  of  tije 

he  was  called  to  various  larger  churches,  but  in  every 
case,  after  prolonged  prayer,  decided  to  stay  in  the  field 
to  which  he  was  first  called  and  among  the  people  whom 
he  dearly  loved,  until  the  call  came  to  go  back  to  the 
Seminary  among  the  professors  who  had  been  such  an 
inspiration  to  him  during  his  theological  course.  Just 
at  this  time  he  offered  himself  to  the  Foreign  Board  and 
was  eager  to  go  to  India,  but  as  he  was  an  officer  in  the 
Student  Volunteer  Movement,  those  who  stood  in  the 
position  of  confidential  advisers  to  him  urged  him  to 
accept  the  call  to  the  Seminary  and  to  help  among  the 
students  to  develop  missionary  interest. 

His  work  at  Chicago  had  been  successful  in  the  largest 
and  inspirational  sense.  His  influence  upon  young  men 
was  marked.  Repeatedly  he  was  called  to  important 
pulpits;  but  none  of  these  calls  dominated  his  judg- 
ment and  will  so  as  to  recall  him  to  active  pastoral  work 
as  finally  did  the  one  from  New  York. 

From  the  letters  to  the  Committee  referring  to  him  it 
would  be  improper  to  quote.  They  combined  to  picture 
to  the  church  a  man  of  quickly  ripening  powers,  with 
the  energy  and  enthusiasm  of  vigorous  young  manhood, 
highly  cultured,  devoted  to  music,  of  genial  and  winning 
personality,  loving  and  loved  by  young  men,  talented 
and  persuasive  in  the  pulpit  and  full  of  the  gospel  spirit 
and  purpose. 

He  was  installed  April  30th,  1902.  Wilton  Merle- 
Smith,  D.D.,  as  Moderator,  propounded  the  constitu- 
tional questions ;  Howard  Duffield,  D.D.,  preached  the 
sermon ;  Robert  Russell  Booth,  D.D.,  offered  the  prayer 
of  installation,  and  Rev.  Thos.  J.  Stevenson,  a  brother, 
gave  the  charge  to  the  Pastor. 

The  new  Pastor  had  before  him  a  task  nearly  as  diffi- 
cult as  that  which  confronted  Dr.  Purves.  Perhaps  in 
some  ways  greater,  because  he  was  a  younger  man,  and 
the  memory  of  John  Hall's  and  of  George  T.  Purves' 
preaching  could  not  but   handicap  their   so   immediate 


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successor,  but  his  earnest,  direct,  powerful  presentation 
of  the  Gospel,  his  winning  personal  presence,  his  mani- 
fest devotion  to  every  department  of  his  parish  duty  so 
endeared  him  and  commended  him  to  his  congregation 
as  to  unite  them  enthusiastically  in  response  to  the  calls 
which  his  quiet  but  energetic  leadership  soon  began  to 
make. 

When  he  came  the  church  roll  had  not  been  revised 
or  purged  of  "deadwood"  for  years.  The  last  year  of 
Dr.  Hall's  pastorate  it  numbered  2669.  When  Dr. 
Stevenson  came  it  was  2682.  The  work  of  revising  it 
was  at  once  begun,  and  the  report  to  the  Assembly  of 
1903  showed  over  900  names  removed  for  death,  or  dis- 
appearance, or  other  causes.  This  brought  the  actuab 
membership  to  1775.  During  his  pastorate  313  names 
have  been  marked  off  under  the  column  marked  "de- 
ceased," many  more  of  course  by  reason  of  the  con- 
tinued revision,  while  there  have  been  added  on  confes- 
sion 482  and  by  letter  441,  so  that  the  present  number 
is  2,081. 

The  following  recent  article  from  one  of  the  religious 
weeklies  is  suggestive: 

"During  the  past  year  the  Fifth  Avenue  Qiurch,  the 
Rev.  Dr.  J.  Ross  Stevenson,  pastor,  contributed  to  the 
various  benevolences  of  the  church  and  to  local  expenses 
the  handsome  sum  of  $352,000,  an  average  of  above  $164 
per  member.  Last  year  this  church  received  78  on  con- 
fession of  faith  and  89  by  letter.  The  present  member- 
ship is  2,081.  The  sum  of  $52,093  was  given  to  Home 
Missions  and  $30,250  to  Foreign  Missions,  a  total  of 
$83,343.  During  the  same  time  the  fifteen  synods  of 
Alabama,  Atlantic,  Canadian,  Catawba,  East  Tennessee, 
Mississippi,  Montana,  New  Mexico,  North  Dakota, 
Oklahoma,  South  Dakota,  Tennessee,  Texas,  Utah  and 
West  Virginia,  with  a  membership  of  120,144,  gave 
$46,957  to  Home  Missions  and  $35,694  to  Foreign  Mis- 
sions, a  total  of  $82,651,  about  68  cents  a  member.    Dur- 


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ing  the  year  the  synods  mentioned  above  received  8,510 
on  confession  of  faith." 

This  article,  whatever  the  purpose  of  its  pubHcation, 
is  very  significant,  as  it  throws  into  sharp  reHef  the  posi- 
tion which  the  great  city  church  occupies  in  contrast  to 
the  churches  in  the  missionary  Synods.  It  is  not  expect- 
ed of  the  home  mission  church  that  it  shall  give  great 
sums  to  the  treasuries  of  the  Boards.  Its  work  is  pri- 
marily that  of  increasing  the  membership  of  the  church 
by  conversions,  but  the  great  Benevolent  Boards  of  the 
church  and  the  great  philanthropies  of  the  country  make 
steady,  constant  and  large  appeals  upon  those  who  be- 
long to  the  large  city  churches.  Moreover,  if  those 
churches  are  crowded  and  their  pews  are  full,  the  min- 
ister will  usually  be  preaching  to  a  congregation  com- 
posed almost  entirely  of  church  members,  and,  therefore, 
the  reports  of  the  large  city  church  of  additions  on  con- 
fession will  usually,  when  analyzed,  be  found  to  refer 
chiefly  to  the  results  in  that  direction  secured  in  the  mis- 
sionary schools  and  chapels  maintained  by  that  church, 
and  the  additions  on  confession  in  the  main  church  rep- 
resent the  normal  admissions  of  children  of  church  fami- 
lies growing  up  into  the  church  life.  While  it  is,  there- 
fore, a  source  of  regret  that  so  great  a  church  reports 
so  small  a  percentage  of  additions  annually,  as  noted  in 
this  article,  it  is  a  source  of  pleasure  that  the  conse- 
crated spirit  of  its  members  is  such  as  to  in  part  com- 
pensate by  its  contributions  to  the  maintenance  of  the 
general  work  of  the  church  at  large.  It  is  satisfactory 
also  to  note  that  since  Dr.  Stevenson's  installation  the 
church  has  gone  steadily  forward  every  year  increasing 
the  total  of  its  gifts  reported  to  the  General  Assembly. 
Even  during  the  recent  financial  stringency  its  benefac- 
tions maintained  this  increase,  and  the  examination  of  the 
statements  as  to  the  condition  of  its  various  organizations 
and  parish  societies  shows  in  what  a  healthy  and  growing 
condition  most  of  them  are.    But  to  avoid  any  misunder- 


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standing,  it  is  proper  to  note  what  is  the  rule  of  the  Gen- 
eral Assembly  with  regard  to  reporting  gifts  in  and 
through  the  various  churches.  In  1906  the  General  As- 
sembly adopted  a  very  clear  series  of  directions  to 
churches  with  regard  to  what  should  be  included  in  these 
reports  of  funds  contributed.  (See  minutes  of  1906, 
pages  218  to  220  inc.)  After  directing  what  should  be 
credited  to  the  various  specific  objects  mentioned  in  the 
printed  blank,  there  are  two  headings,  named  "Miscel- 
laneous" and  "Individual  Gifts." 

Under  "Miscellaneous,"  churches  are  directed  "To  in- 
clude all  moneys  paid  to  tract  societies,  Christian  En- 
deavor, Y.  M.  C.  A.,  hospitals  and  general  benevolences." 

Under  "Individual  Gifts,"  the  Assembly  directs :  "If 
the  donors  do  not  object,  the  direct  gifts  of  individuals 
to  any  of  the  Boards  or  to  the  causes  they  represent 
should  be  reported  with  other  gifts  under  the  proper 
head.  Individual  gifts  for  religious  and  charitable  causes 
not  included  in  the  regular  schedule  should  be  placed 
under  the  head  "Miscellaneous.". 

Development  of  the  Church  Benevolences. 

The  Stated  Qerk  of  the  General  Assembly,  Rev.  Will- 
iam H.  Roberts,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  has  prepared  for  the  Com- 
mittee at  considerable  trouble  a  summary  of  all  its  sta- 
tistics reported  to  the  General  Assembly  for  the  one  hun- 
dred years  of  our  existence.  These  were  only  partial  at 
the  outset,  or  rather  the  requirements  of  the  Assembly 
were  not  so  detailed  as  they  now  are,  but  these  statistics 
will  repay  careful  study.  It  will  be  noted,  first,  that 
the  contributions  for  home  and  foreign  missions  were 
not  separated  until  1839,  and  second,  that  contributions 
for  the  Boards  did  not  reach  the  present  total  of  eight 
until  1884.  Following  the  suggestion  in  one  of  the 
former  manuals  of  the  church,  these  contributions  have 
been  totalled  under  the  different  pastorates  and  averaged 
by  the  number  of  years  of  such  pastorate,  and  while  they 


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are  not  satisfactory  as  to  the  early  pastorates,  when 
congregational  expenses  and  miscellaneous  charities  were 
not  reported,  they  are  interesting  and  suggestive  after 
the  beginning  of  the  pastorate  of  James  W.  Alexander, 
D.D.    Thus,  the  totals  reported  during  the 

First  pastorate  of  Dr.  Romeyn,  from  1809  to  1827, 
19  years,  are  $3,731,  or  an  average  of  $196.36  per  year. 

Second  pastorate  of  Dr.  Mason,  from  1828  to  1836, 
9  years,  are  $13,656,  or  an  average  of  $1,517.33  per  year. 

Third  pastorate  of  Dr.  Potts,  from  1837  to  1844,  8 
years,  are  $18,361,  or  an  average  of  $2,295.12  per  year. 

Fourth  pastorate  of  Dr.  Alexander,  from  1845  to 
i860,  16  years,  are  $424,472,  or  an  average  of  $26,529.50 
per  year. 

Fifth  pastorate  of  Dr.  Rice,  from  1861  to  1867,  7 
years,  are  $371,164,  or  an  average  of  $53,023.42  per 
year. 

Sixth  pastorate  of  Dr.  Hall,  from  1868  to  1899,  32 
years,  are  $4,227,345.10,  or  an  average  of  $132,104.53 
per  year. 

Seventh  pastorate  of  Dr.  Purves,  from  1900  to  1901, 
2  years,  are  $274,381,  or  an  average  of  $137,190.50  per 
year. 

Eighth  and  last  pastorate  of  Dr.  Stevenson,  from  1902 
to  1908,  7  years,  are  $2,267,775.88,  or  an  average  of 
$323,967-98  per  year. 

An  analysis  of  the  collections  and  gifts  discloses  one 
important  and  very  gratifying  fact,  and  that  is  that  more 
people  are  giving  to  the  various  causes  than  used  to  be 
the  case.  The  gifts  of  the  large  givers  are  not  with- 
held or  diminished,  while  those  of  the  smaller  givers  are 
multiplying  and  increasing. 

The  Forward  Movement. 

Underlying  the  appeal  made  by  Dr.  Stevenson  to  his 
people  since  his  advent  has  been  the  constant  expression 
of  his  desire  that  the  great  inheritance  which  this  church 
is  now  enjoying  as  the  result  of  the  generosity  and  self- 


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sacrifice  of  previous  generations  in  the  congregation 
should  not  be  selfishly  enjoyed,  but  that  this  great  plant 
should  produce  constant  instruction  and  spiritual  delight 
to  the  community  in  the  center  of  which  we  are  sit- 
uated. It  may  interest  many  to  know  that  to  that  end 
the  Session  has  resolved  that  the  church  be  open  daily 
for  meditation  and  prayer,  which  resolution  awaits  for 
its  going  into  operation  the  provision  of  sufficient  funds 
for  the  purpose  in  the  hands  of  the  Trustees.  In  the 
meantime  the  so-called  Forward  Movement  was  inaugu- 
rated for  the  purpose  of  providing  from  the  pulpit  of 
this  church  such  presentation  of  the  Evangelistic  mes- 
sage and  such  teaching  of  the  truth  as  would  appeal  to 
the  general  public  and  draw  them  in  where  they  might 
be  influenced  for  good.  On  the  teaching  side,  during  the 
past  Winter  of  1907  to  1908,  the  course  of  addresses  of 
Hugh  Black  and  Francis  L.  Patton  on  certain  great 
teachings  of  the  Bible  were  wonderfully  successful  and 
profitable  to  the  crowds  who  were  in  attendance  at  the 
afternoon  services.  On  the  other  hand  the  Evangelistic 
service  at  the  third  services  on  Sunday  evenings,  appeal- 
ing to  an  entirely  different  class,  were  also  extremely 
profitable  and  encouraging.  They  were  under  the  charge 
of  the  Associate  Minister,  Dr.  Hallenbeck,  and  under  the 
auspices  of  the  Young  People.  It  was  announced  in 
advance  that  there  would  be  no  attempt  made  to  measure 
the  success  of  these  meetings  by  any  count  of  attendance 
nor  by  any  record  of  conversions  claimed  to  be  directly 
traceable  thereto.  The  object  was  to  provide  the  mes- 
sage without  any  attempt  to  keep  a  spiritual  debit  and 
credit  account  thereof.  In  spite  of  the  fact  that  there 
were  three  services  every  Sabbath,  the  attendance  at  any 
of  the  services  was  better  and  more  encouraging  than 
had  been  the  attendance  at  either  of  the  services  when 
there  were  but  two. 

We  can  only  note,  without  comment,  the  recent  won- 


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derful  and  inspiring  services  under  "Gipsy  Smith"  in 
which  neighboring  churches  loyally  cooperated. 

Of  the  Laymen's  Missionary  Movement,  Samuel  B. 
Capen  writes : 

"On  November  13th  and  14th,  1906,  there  was 
held  in  the  Fifth  Avenue  Presbyterian  Church  in 
New  York  City  an  interdenominational  meeting  in 
commemoration  of  the  centennial  of  the  Haystack 
Prayer  Meeting. 

"On  the  afternoon  and  evening  following,  a  com- 
pany of  laymen  met  in  the  chapel,  of  the  same 
church,  the  invitation  to  this  meeting  being  in  the 
form  of  a  'Call  to  Prayer.'  As  a  result  of  that  meet- 
ing the  Laymen's  Missionary  Movement  was  organ- 
ized." 

Two  other  facts  in  this  last  pastorate  should  also  be 
recorded.  The  one  was  the  death  of  Mr.  Richard  Bur- 
ton, the  assistant  sexton  for  so  many  years,  whose  in- 
terest in  the  church  work  was  so  intense  and  constant. 
He  was  so  particularly  interested  in  the  work  of  the 
Board  of  Ministerial  Relief  that  a  memorial  gift  to  that 
board  was  given  after  his  death  by  friends  in  the  congre- 
gation. 

'  The  other  fact  is  that  Mr.  Culyer,  the  sexton  of  the 
church,  has  passed  his  half  century  of  service  by  nearly 
five  years,  linking  the  present  administration  to  that  of 
the  first  half  century  of  the  church's  life.  Moreover,  to 
the  joy  of  all  who  knew  him,  after  setting  the  Lord's 
table  with  his  own  hands  for  so  many  years,  he  at  last  sat 
down  himself  at  that  table  on  profession  of  his  faith  in 
Jesus  Christ. 

The  Pastor  of  the  Fifth  Avenue  Church  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  International  Committee  of  the  Y.  M.  C. 
A.,  of  the  Board  of  Foreign  Missions,  of  the  Council 
of  the  New  York  University,  is  one  of  the  Directors 
of  Princeton  Seminary,  and  has  to  do  his  share  of 
committee  work  in  the  important  Presbyterial  activi- 
ties, such  as  the  Church  Extension  Committee  and 
others,  and  at  the  same  time  he  is  confronted  with  an 


iFiftj)  atienue  pre^liptenan  Ci)urc{)  77 

increasingly  difficult  task,  if  this  privilege  can  be  called 
a  task,  to  wit :  of  pastoral  visitation.  The  families  of  the 
church  are  widely  far  apart.  There  is  less  permanence 
in  the  homes  of  people  residing  in  a  city,  and  changes 
in  address  are  frequent,  and  yet  he  has  been  able  to  deal 
with  remarkable  success  with  this  problem.  He  is  great- 
ly blessed  by  the  earnest  and  constant  desire  of  the  young 
people  of  the  church  to  engage  in  active  work.  There 
are  few  churches  in  which  the  young  people  are  ac- 
complishing so  much  and  so  important  work  as  in  ours, 
where  the  finely  organized  form  which  the  young  peo- 
ple's association  has  taken  in  regard  to  the  mission  and 
institutional  work  of  the  church  has  necessitated  their 
incorporation  under  the  membership  laws  of  the  church. 
Two  other  important  steps  have  recently  been  taken  by 
the  session  that  are  little  known  yet.  The  one  is  to 
authorize  the  Deacons  to  administer  the  elements  at  the 
communion  services  held  in  the  chapels ;  another  is  the 
authority  to  procure  a  new  hymn  book  for  our  services 
as  soon  as  the  necessary  funds  can  be  provided  by  the 
Trustees. 

Work  of  the  Official  Boards. 

The  Session. 

In  spite  of  the  strength  of  Presbyterianism  as  a  de- 
nomination, it  is  rather  remarkable  that  its  general  mem- 
bership have  very  vague  ideas  as  to  the  functions  of  the 
Church  Session  and  have  little  conception  of  the  magni- 
tude of  the  duties  which  they  have  to  perform. 

"The  Church  Session  consists  of  the  Pastor  or  Pastors 
and  Ruling  Elders  of  a  particular  congregation."  (Form 
of  Government,  Chap.  9,  Art.  I.) 

"The  Church  Session  is  charged  with  maintaining  the 
spiritual  government  of  the  congregation ;  for  which  pur- 
pose they  have  power  to  inquire  into  the  knowledge  and 
Christian  conduct  of  the  members  of  the  church,  to  call 
before  them  offenders  and  witnesses  being  members  of 


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their  own  congregation,  and  to  introduce  other  witnesses 
where  it  may  be  necessary  to  bring  the  process  to  issue 
and  when  they  can  be  procured  to  attend;  to  receive 
members  into  the  church ;  to  admonish,  to  rebuke,  to 
suspend  or  exclude  from  the  sacraments  those  who  are 
found  to  deserve  censure;  to  concert  the  best  measures 
for  promoting  the  spiritual  interest  of  the  congregation, 
and  to  appoint  delegates  to  the  higher  judicatories  of  the 
church."     (Id.  Art.  VI.) 

The  words  italicized  describe,  in  a  healthy,  hard-work- 
ing church,  the  chief  activities  of  the  Session.  It  has 
been  necessary  in  recent  years  to  continually  increase  the 
membership  of  the  Session  in  order  that  the  various 
kinds  of  work  to  be  done  may  be  distributed  more  fairly, 
so  that  the  individual  members  shall  not  be  overworked. 
It  is  sometimes  not  fully  realized  that  the  members  of 
one  of  our  large  city  churches  have  to  serve  as  members 
of  the  boards  of  the  church  and  on  important  Presbytery 
and  Synod  committees,  and  are  also  directors  on  the 
various  hospital  and  charitable  boards  having  headquar- 
ters in  New  York ;  and,  therefore,  the  burden  of  the  local 
parish  work  must  either  fall  entirely  on  a  paid  ministerial 
force  or  there  must  be  a  large  Session  to  divide  the  labor. 
Some  idea  of  the  amount  of  work  that  has  to  be  done 
can  be  gathered  from  the  various  committees  of  the  Ses- 
sion. There  are  standing  committees  on  the  Home  Sun- 
day School,  on  the  John  Hall  Memorial  Chapel,  on  the 
Alexander  Chapel,  on  the  Chinese  Sabbath  School,  on 
finance  and  benevolence,  on  music  and  public  worship. 
There  are  special  committees  on  hospitality,  on  forward 
movement,  and  on  such  special  subjects  as  come  up  from 
time  to  time  in  the  nature  of  emergency  work  or  of  new 
developing  activities.  Some  of  these  committees  have 
a  close  relation  to  the  work  of  the  Trustees ;  for  example, 
the  Committee  on  Music  and  Public  Worship.  The  Ses- 
sion has  control  of  the  character  of  the  service,  and  could, 
of  course,  veto  the  rendering  of  music  in  the  church  by 


jFiftf)  auenue  Pre0liptetian  Cf)urcfj  79 

persons  objectionable  on  spiritual  grounds,  but  the  Trus- 
tees are  the  only  body  who  can  bind  the  church  by  con- 
tract, and,  therefore,  the  Trustees  make  the  musical  con- 
tracts, employ  the  organist  and  the  singers,  and,  at  this 
point,  the  harmonious  co-operation  of  the  two  bodies  is 
specially  emphasized.  The  disciplinary  function  of  the 
Session  is  fortunately,  nowadays,  little  invoked  or  called 
into  action,  but  the  oversight  of  the  congregation  is  an 
important  matter.  There  are  sub-committees  of  the  Ses- 
sion over  the  whole  congregation,  who  are  expected  to 
note  the  attendance  of  church  members ;  their  prolonged 
absence  is  noted  and  inquired  into,  and  often  cases  of 
sickness  not  reported  directly  to  the  pastor  come  to  his 
attention  in  this  way.  The  meetings  of  the  Session  are 
frequent  and  often  prolonged.  As  a  church  judicatory 
its  meetings  are  solemnly  convened  and  closed  with 
prayer.  There  is  a  free  interchange  of  opinion  on  mat- 
ters of  current  interest.  The  rule  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  warrants  action  by  a  majority,  but  it  is  delightful 
to  note  how  infrequently  in  recent  years  there  has  been 
any  divided  vote  in  the  Session  of  our  church.  The  con- 
sideration of  appeals  for  our  benevolent  help,  and  the 
preparation  of  the  annual  calendar  of  offerings,  and  the 
fixing  of  the  annual  budget  for  the  chapels  and  schools 
is  a  most  serious  task,  and  the  Committee  on  Finance  and 
Benevolence  meets  statedly  and  reports  regularly.  The 
distribution  of  the  elements  at  the  Lord's  Supper  in 
many  churches  committed  to  the  Deacons  is  in  our  church 
a  privilege  of  the  Session.  Members  of  the  Session  are 
elected  for  life,  while  in  some  churches  with  the  approval 
of  the  General  Assembly  they  are  elected  on  the  rotary 
system  for  specific  terms.  Every  Sunday  morning  before 
the  first  services  the  Session  meets  statedly  and  engages 
in  prayer  for  the  service  of  the  day  and  for  those  who 
are  to  present  the  Gospel  Message  from  the  pulpit.  Per- 
haps one  of  the  most  precious  memories  that  any  Pastor 
of  this  church  can  preserve  is  that  of  the  earnest,  simple 


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prayers  at  Session  meetings  of  such  a  man,  to  name  but 
one,  as  the  late  John  Sinclair,  whose  dying  prayer  on  be- 
half of  his  fellow  Elders  was  not  only  a  proof  of  the 
earnest  interest  he  had  in  their  work,  but  proved  a  won- 
derful incentive  to  them  all  to  emulate  his  own  devo- 
tion and  fidelity  of  service. 
The  Trustees. 

The  work  of  the  Trustees  of  the  church  considered 
as  a  corporation  is  also  little  appreciated  by  the  average 
pew-holder  or  communicant.  The  Trustees  of  the  Fifth 
Avenue  Presbyterian  Church  do  not  merely  act  as  the 
rentors  of  sittings  in  the  church  and  the  collectors  of  pew 
rents ;  they  hold  in  trust  for  the  church  all  its  temporali- 
ties, aggregating  in  value  nearly  two  millions  of  dollars. 
Through  the  house  committee  they  attend  to  the  repairs 
and  insurance  of  its  buildings.  Those  who  were  inti- 
mately acquainted  with  the  late  Francis  Forbes  are 
aware  of  his  almost  daily  attendance  to  the  important 
duties  of  this  particular  committee.  The  Trustees  repre- 
sent the  church  in  the  community.  They  have  to  observe 
the  regulations  of  the  fire  department,  insurance  depart- 
ment, building  department,  and  sometimes  of  the  health 
department.  In  the  records  of  the  Board  during  the  last 
one  hundred  years,  we  find  recorded  the  names  of  some 
of  the  most  prominent  lawyers  and  judges  of  New  York 
City:  Mr.  Lord,  Mr.  De  Forest,  Mr.  Day,  Mr.  Nash, 
Judge  Davis,  Judge  Van  Vorst,  to  mention  no  others ; 
and  questions  often  arose  during  these  years  on  which 
these  men  rendered  without  charge  laborious,  complete 
and  voluminous  opinions  on  matters  of  the  church  and 
civil  law,  some  of  which  might  well  be  reproduced  and 
preserved  for  general  information.  In  our  various  pur- 
chases and  transfers  of  church  property  the  very  best 
service  of  trained  legal  minds  has  been  constantly  re- 
quired. The  Committee  on  Church  Music  has  a  most 
important  relation  to  the  spiritual  interest  of  the  church. 
The  House  Committee  is  the  housekeeper  of  the  church, 


jFiftf)  atjenue  pre0l}ptenan  Cfjurcf)  8i 

and  sets  the  house  in  order  and  keeps  it  clean  and  always 
fit  for  the  worship  of  God.  Its  Finance  Committe  deals 
with  larger  amounts  and  more  important  interests  than 
many  Boards  of  Directors  of  business  corporations.  It 
is  a  quiet  service,  little  heralded,  little  appreciated,  but 
constant  in  its  demands  upon  the  self-denying  spirit  of 
those  who  thus  serve  the  church. 
The  Deacons. 

The  Deacons'  Board,  which  is  composed  of  nine  mem- 
bers, holds  regular  meetings  bi-monthly  and  special  meet- 
ings as  often  as  is  required  by  circumstances;  the  April 
meeting  being  the  Annual  Meeting,  when  a  report  of  the 
work  done  during  the  year  is  presented. 

The  church  being  large  and  having  two  mission  chap- 
els there  are  necessarily  many  members  of  the  church 
and  congregation  who  look  to  the  Board  for  assistance 
and  guidance. 

While  the  Deacons  are  expected  "to  take  care  of  the 
poor  and  to  distribute  among  them  the  collections  which 
may  be  raised  for  their  use,"  they  also  do  many  things 
not  usually  considered  a  part  of  their  work.  Members 
of  the  Board  visit  the  sick  and  see  that  proper  medical 
treatment  is  procured  for  them  in  their  homes  or  that 
admission  to  hospitals  is  secured  when  that  is  necessary ; 
convalescent  care  is  arranged  for  in  Convalescent  Homes 
or  in  private  boarding  places  in  the  country  when  the 
person  is  sufficiently  recovered  to  leave  the  hospital,  but 
not  well  enough  to  resume  his  usual  vocation.  The 
Board  arranges  for  the  admission  of  the  superannuated 
into  homes  for  the  aged.  This  is  at  times  very  difficult, 
as  most  of  the  homes  for  the  aged  are  full,  with  long 
waiting  lists.  Sometimes,  after  waiting  for  years,  when 
an  opportunity  comes,  the  person  has  changed  his  mind 
and  will  not  enter.  Members  of  the  Church  who  have 
come  from  other  places  and  who  have  friends  or  rela- 
tives able  and  willing  to  care  for  them  are  sent  back  to 
their  old  homes.     During  the  past  year  one  woman  was 


82  Centennial  Celetitation  of  tbe 

sent  back  to  Scotland,  one  man  to  Texas,  and  one  mem- 
ber, becoming  insane,  was  sent  to  an  asylum.  One  mem- 
ber who  became  stranded  in  England  was  brought  back 
to  New  York  and  placed  in  a  home.  Boarding  places 
must  be  found,  and  frequently  the  person  becoming  dis- 
satisfied without  sufficient  cause  refused  to  remain,  and 
another  place  must  be  found.  Many  other  things  of  a 
minor  character  must  be  done  to  satisfy  all  those  de- 
pendent upon  us. 

There  are  at  the  present  time  eighteen  regular  pen- 
sioners under  our  care,  and  there  are  many  others  who 
are  helped  from  time  to  time.  The  Board  spends  in  the 
care  of  the  dependent  between  $2,500  w^j  $3,000  each 
year. 

The  Board  also  assists  the  Session  at  the  communion 
services  at  both  the  John  Hall  Memorial  and  Alexander 
Qiapels ;  meets  at  times  with  the  other  Boards  of  the 
church  to  consider  plans  for  carrying  on  the  great  work 
of  the  entire  church ;  and  does  such  other  work  as  may 
be  assigned  to  it  by  either  the  Pastor  or  Session.  The 
Board  is  always  ready  to  do  its  part  in  special  evangel- 
istic services  or  any  other  way  in  which  it  may  help  to 
advance  the  Kingdom  of  Christ. 
Conclusion. 

The  reading  of  this  sketch,  for  that  is  all  that  it  can 
be  called,  fragmentary  though  it  be,  will  satisfy  any  one 
that  the  problems  before  us  as  a  great  city  church  are 
very  little  different,  except  in  degree,  from  those  so 
pathetically  recorded  by  Dr.  James  W.  Alexander  and 
above  quoted.  How  to  reach  the  unchurched  masses? 
How  to  minister  to  the  physical  needs  of  the  poor  and 
suffering?  Is  endowment  necessary  for  downtown 
work?  Can  our  mission  churches  be  set  on  their  feet 
with  independent  boards  and  with  some  hope  of  self- 
support?  Are  we  at  the  center  of  our  own  parish  work? 
How  can  our  great  church  plant  produce  the  largest 
spiritual    dividends?      How    can    the    midweek    prayer 


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meetings  be  increased  in  efficiency  and  profit?  How  can 
the  competing  attractions  of  social  life  on  Wednesday 
evening  and  on  the  Sabbath  day  be  more  effectively 
counteracted  and  the  deteriorating  influence  of  disregard 
of  the  ordinances  of  the  church  be  avoided  or  remedied  ? 
These  problems  should  stimulate  and  not  discourage  us, 
and  it  is  hoped  that  this  review  of  our  one  hundred 
years  of  life  and  activity  will  show  that,  so  long  as  the 
Gospel  Message  and  appeal  to  Christian  living  issue 
from  the  pulpit  each  Lord's  day,  and  just  so  long  as 
the  influence  of  Christian  living  emanates  from  our 
congregation  as  a  center,  the  church  must  and  will  con- 
tinue to  do  its  evangelizing  and  benevolent  work  with 
increasing  efficiency  as  it  has  been  doing  now  for  one 
hundred  years. 


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CALENDAR  OF  CHURCH  AND  MISSION 
ACTIVITIES  IN  NEW  YORK  CITY. 

SUNDAY 

At  Fifty-fifth  Street. 

Public  Worship  at  ii  A.  M.,  4  P.  M.  (and  8  P.  M.  from 
November  till  April). 

Bible  School  and  Adults'  Bible  Classes,  9 :30  A.  M. 

Devotional  Meeting  of  Young  People's  Association,  first 
and  third  Sundays  of  each  month,  after  the  evening 
service. 

The  Lord's  Supper  is  administered  on  the  second  Sun- 
days of  October,  December,  February,  April,  and  on 
the  last  Sunday  in  May,  at  4  o'cl(>ck. 

Baptism  of  Infants  at  the  Morning  Service  on  Com- 
munion Sundays. 

At  Alexander  Chapel. 

Public  Worship,  11  A.  M.  and  8  P.  M. 

Sunday  School,  10  A.  M.  and  2:15  P.  M. 

The  Young  People's  Forward  Movement  Society,  7:15 
P.  M. 

The  Lord's  Supper  is  administered  on  the  third  Sundays 
of  October,  December,  February,  April  and  June,  at 

7:45  P-  M. 
At  Chinese  Sunday  School. 
Chinese  Prayer  Meeting,  7:15  P.  M. 
Service  of  Song,  Chinese  and  English,  7  45  P.  M. 
Sunday  School,  8  P.  M. 
Teachers'  Prayer  Meeting,  second  Sunday  in  each  month, 

7:30  P.  M. 
'At  John  Hall  Memorial  Chapel. 
Public  Worship,  ii  A.  M.  and  8  P.  M. 
Intermediate  Christian  Endeavor,  10:30  A.  M. 
Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  7  P.  M. 
The  Lord's  Supper  is  administered  on  the  third  Sundays 

in  October,  December,  February,  April   and  June, 

8  P.  M. 


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MONDAY 
At  John  Hall  Memorial  Chapel. 
Boys'  Printing  Class,  8:30  P.  M. 

TUESDAY 
At  Fifty-iifth  Street. 

Women's   Employment   Society,    in   the   room   over  the 

Chapel,  10  A.  M. 
Women's    Prayer   Meeting,   at  noon,   in   the   Minister's 

Room. 
Trustees  meet  on  3rd  Tuesdays  of  February,  April,  May 

and  October,  and  on  the  4th  Tuesday  of  December. 
At  Alexander   Chapel. 
Boys'  Half-Hour  Society,  4  P.  M. 
At  John  Hall  Memorial  Chapel. 
Mid-week  Prayer  and  Praise  Service,  8  P.  M. 
Boys'  Club  Praise  Meeting,  7 130  P.  M. 
Communicants'  Bible  Class  for  girls,  3  45  P.  M. 

WEDNESDAY 
At  Fifty-iifth  Street. 

Mid-week  Sei-vice  in  the  Lecture  Room,  8:15  P.  M. 
At  John  Hall  Memorial  Clmpel. 
Women's  Bible  Class,  2  :30  P.  M. 
Junior  Girls'  Gymnasium  Class,  7  P.  M. 
Senior  Girls'  Gymnasium  Qass,  8  P.  M. 
Drill  of  John  Hall  Memorial  Cadets,  7  -.30  P.  M. 
Men's  Club  Meeting,  8  P.  M. 

THURSDAY 
At  Fifty-iifth  Street. 

Stated  Meeting  of  Session  at  8:15,  the  Thursday  even- 
ing before  the  second  Sunday  of  the  month. 
At  Alexander   Chapel. 
Prayer  Meeting,  8  P.  M. 
Choir  Rehearsal,  9  to  9:40  P.  M. 
At  John  Hall  Memorial  Chapel. 
Workers'  Devotional  Meeting,  9:30  A.  M. 


86  Centennial  Celebration  of  tlje 

Girls'  Club  Social  Night,  8  P.  M. 
Boys'  Club  Hammock  Class,  8  P.  M. 
Senior  Boys'  Club  Night,  8  P.  M. 

FRIDAY 

At  Fifty-Hfth  Street. 

Ladies'  Auxiliary  Missionary  Meeting  in  the  Lecture 
Room  on  the  last  Friday  of  each  month,  ii  A.  M. 

Young  Ladies'  Missionary  Meeting  in  the  Lecture  Room 
on  the  last  Friday  of  each  month,  3  P.  M. 

Junior  Missionary  Society  on  the  first  and  third  Fridays 
of  each  month,  at  3  45  P.  M. 

Preparatory  Service  on  the  Fridays  previous  to  the  Com- 
munion, 8:15  P.  M. 

At  Alexander   Chapel. 

Children's  Hour,  4  P.  M. 

Junior  Endeavor  Society,  7  P.  M. 

Pastor's  Aid  Society,  8  P.  M. 

At  John  Hall  Memorial  Chapel. 

Girls'  Cooking  Class,  8  P.  M. 

Girls'  Millinery  Class,  8  P.  M. 

Boys'  and  Girls'  Mission  Band,  3  45  P.  M. 

Boys'  Gymnasium  Class,  7:30  P.  M. 

At  Alexander   Chapel. 

Sewing  School,  10  :^o  A.  M. 

Church  Sociable,  second  Tuesday  in  each  month,  8  P.  M. 

At  John  Hall  Memorial  Chapel. 

Sewing  School  (November  to  May),  10:30  A.  M. 

EVERY  EVENING 
At  John  Hall  Memorial  Chapel  and  Association  House, 
except  Sunday  and  Tuesday,  Clubs,  Classes,  Baths, 
Reading  Room  and  Gymnasium,  open  to  members. 

EVERY  WEEK-DAY 
At  John  Hall  Memorial  Chapel  and  Association  House, 
Day  Nursery  and  Kindergarten,  1147  First  Avenue. 


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PREACHING,    TEACHING    AND    WORKING 

FORCE  EMPLOYED  BY  THE  CHURCH 

OR  ITS  SOCIETIES. 

Rev.  J.  Ross  Stevenson,  D.D.,  Pastor,  19  East  66th  Street. 
Rev.  Edwin  F.  Hallenbeck,  D.D.,  Associate  Minister,   7  West 

5Sth  Street. 
Mr.  George  C.  Hood,  Assistant,  7  West  55th  Street. 

FOREIGN  MISSIONARIES    (associate  ministers  abroad). 
Rev.  Charles  C.  Sawtell,  Seoul,  Corea. 
Guy  W.  Hamilton,  M.D.,  Shuntefu,  China. 
Mrs.  Hamilton,  Shuntefu,  China. 
Rev.  Edwin  C.  Hawley,  Shuntefu,  China. 
Mrs.  Hawley,  Shuntefu,  China. 
Rev.  J.  A.  Miller,  Shuntefu,  China. 
Mrs.  Miller,  Shuntefu,  China. 
Miss  Emma  Hicks,  Shuntefu,  China. 

Mrs.   James   W.   Hawkes    (Ladies'  Auxiliary),   Hamadan, 
Persia. 

HOME  MISSIONARIES,  outside  New  York  City. 
Martin  B.  Lewis,  Minnesota. 
Mr.  John  A.  Sellers,  Menau,  Idaho. 

Mr.  R.  G.  Long  (Ladies  Auxiliary),  Asheville  Farm  School. 
Rev.  S.  R.  Spriggs  (Ladies'  Auxiliary),  Point  Barrow,  Alaska. 
Rev.  a.  Grant  Evans  (^  Ladies'  Auxiliary),  Muskegee,  I.  T. 
Miss  Mathes  OA  Ladies'  Auxiliary),  Old  D wight  Mission, 

I.  T. 
Farmer  Sam  (Ladies'  Auxiliary),  Old  Dwight  Mission,  I.  T. 

The  Ladies  also  provide  for 
Medical  work  in  Hospital  and  Dispensary  at  Sitka. 
Partial  Support  of  Magyar  Bible  Reader. 
Partial  Support  of  Freedman's  School,  Mayersville,  S.  C. 
Ten  scholarships  in  Home  Mission  Schools. 

CITY  MrSSIONARIES. 

Rev.   Hugh   Pritchard  at  Alexander  Chapel,   117  Waverly 

Place. 
Rev.  Albert  L.  Evans  at  John  Hall  Memorial  Chapel,  342 

East  63d  Street. 
Rev.  Paul  R.  Abbott  at  John  Hall  Memorial  Chapel,  342 

East  63d  Street. 


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PAID  WORKERS  AT  HOAIE  CHURCH. 
Secretary: 

Miss  Eugenia  Torrence,  7  West  55th  Street. 
Sexton : 

Mr.  William  Culver,  7  West  55th  Street. 
Assistant  Sexton: 

Mr.  Nathaniel  Morrow,  7  West  ssth  Street. 

Choir. 
Organist: 

Mr.  Frank  L.  Sealy,  344  Park  Avenue,  Newark,  N.  J. 
Soprano: 

Mrs.  Hissem  K.  DeMoss,  106  West  90th  Street. 
Contralto: 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  D.  Leonard,  40  Gramercy  Park. 
Tenor: 

Mr.  Edward  W.  Strong,  7  West  92d  Street. 
Baritone: 

Mr.  Frederick  Martin,  142  West  91st  Street. 

PAID  WORKERS  AT  63RD  STREET. 
Visitor: 

Mrs.  Agnes  Philips,  342  East  63d  Street. 
Visitor: 

Miss  Elise  Hoffman,  342  East  63d  Street. 
Organist  and  Chorister: 

Mr.  George  E.  Knowles,  342  East  63d  Street. 
Chorister: 

William  T.  Randolph,  342  East  63d  Street. 
Pianist: 

Emil  Kohout,  342  East  63d  Street. 
Gymnasium  Instructor: 

Mr.  James  W.  Mustor,  342  East  63d  Street. 
Stenographer: 

Miss  Jeannette  Stark,  342  East  63d  Street. 
Matron  of  Day  Nursery: 

Mrs.  C.  M.  McEvoy,  342  East  63d  Street. 
(Also  three  nurses,  laundress  and  cook.) 
Kindergartner : 

Miss  Margaret  Penman,  342  East  63d  Street. 
Supt.  of  Men's  Club: 

Philip  Hoefer,  342  East  63d  Street. 
Supt.  of  Girls'  Club: 

Six    instructors  for  industrial  classes  who  have  not  been  se- 
lected for  this  year's  work. 


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House  Cleaner: 

Mrs.  Amelia  Howell,  342  East  63d  Street. 
Janitor: 

Mr.  Paul  Dahlman,  342  East  63d  Street, 
Ass't  Janitor: 

Mr.  John  Ryan,  342  East  63d  Street. 

PAID  WORKERS  AT  ALEXANDER  CHAPEL. 
Organist: 

Mr.  W.  F.  Sherman. 
Visitor: 

Miss  Mary  Hawkshurst. 
Sewing  School  Supervisor: 

Mrs.  Hyde. 
Janitress: 

Mrs.  George  Bullwinkle. 

PASTORS  AND  OFFICERS  OF  THE  CHURCH. 
1 808- 1 908. 

PASTORS. 

1.  John  Brodhead  Romeyn,  D.D. 

Served — November  9th,  1808,  to  February  22d,  1825. 
Relation  dissolved  by  death. 

2.  Cyrus  Mason. 

Served — December  7th,  1826,  to  September  sth,  1835. 
Relation  dissolved  by  Presbytery. 

3.  George  Potts,  D.D. 

Served — May  17th,  1836,  to  April   i6th,  1844. 
Relation  dissolved  by  Presbytery. 

4.  James  W.  Alexander,  D.D. 

Served — October  3d,  1844,  to  June  25th,  1849. 

Relation  dissolved  by  Presbytery  in  obedience  to  Gen- 
eral Assembly's  assignment  of  him  to  Princeton 
Theological  Seminary. 

Reinstalled  and  served  November  12th,  1851,  to  Octo- 
ber nth,  1859. 

Relation  dissolved  by  death. 

5.  Nathan  L.  Rice,  D.D. 

Served — April  28th,   1861,  to  April  i6th,  1867. 
Relation  dissolved  by  Presbytery. 

6.  John  Hall,  D.D.,  LL.D. 

Served — November  3d,  1867,  to  September  17th,  1898. 
Relation  dissolved  by  death. 


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7.  George  T.  Purves,  D.D.,  LL.D. 

Served — May  22d,  1900,  to  September  24th,  1901. 
Relation  dissolved  by  death. 

8.  J.  Ross  Stevenson,  D.D. 

Serving  from  April  30th,  1902. 

ELDERS. 


CHOSEN 

Jan.  I,  1809 — 
Zechariah  Lewis 
William  Cleveland 

Oct.  31,  1809 — 
Elisha  Coit 
Solomon  Williams 

Dec.  27,  1810 — 
Isaac  Ives 
John  E.  Caldwell 
Samuel  Whiting 
George  Fitch 
DiviE  Bethune 

Aug.  I,  1819 — 
Benjamin  Strong 
Oliver  Wilcox 
Hugh  Auchincloss 
Thomas  Masters 

Mar.  9,  1827 — 
Francis  Markoe 

Nov.  i,  1829 — 
Joseph  Otis 
Horace  Hinsdale 
Cyrenius  Beers 
John  W.  Carrington 
Henry  Young 

Dec.  13,  1831 — 
Simeon  Hyde 

Apr.  13,  184s— 
William  Walker 
Nathan  T.  Jennings 
George  M.  McLean 

Apr.  II,  1853— 
Joseph  Hyde 
Thomas  U.  Smith 
J.  J.  Greenough 
James  M.  Halsted 


CHOSEN 

Feb.  16,  1862 — 
David  Hoadley 
David  Irwin 
Henry  Day 
Henry  G.  DeForest 
Jeremiah  Baker 

Nov.  22,  1869 — 
Jacob  D.  Vermilye 
Wm.  L.  Skidmore 
James  Eraser 
Robert  Bliss 
Cornelius  R.  Agnew 

Mar.  8,  1877— 
John  Sinclair 
John  Paton 
Malcolm  Graham 
John  H.  Mortimer 
William  Campbell 
Hooper  C.  Van  Vorst 
William  Sloane 

Mar.  12,  1882 — 
John  Sloane 
John  N.  Ewell 
George  Hunter  Brown 
Birdseye  Blakeman 
EwEN  McIntyre 
Silas  B.  Brownell 

Apr.  12,  1891 — 
Robert  Beggs 
Henry  L.  Smith 
John  J.  McCook 
H.  Edwards  Rowt-and 
William  Dulles,  Jr. 
Henry  B.  Barnes 

May  22,  1898 — 
James  A.  Frame 


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gn 


CHOSEN 

Wm.  Irwin 

Samuel  B.  Schieffeun 
James  Talcott 
Dec.  14,  1902 — 
George  Taylor 
James  M.  Stuart 
Samuel  S.  Auchincloss 


chosen 

Edwin  J.  Gillies 
Henry  W.  Jessup 
Apr.  I,  1906 — 
DwiGHT  H.  Day 
Charles  F.  Darlington 
HenryB.  Barnes  (reinstalled) 
Fred'k  a.  Wallis 


DEACONS. 


chosen 

Jan.  I,  1809 — 
George  Fitch 

Dec.  27,  1810 — 
William  Hall 
Oliver  Wilcox 
Hugh  Auchincloss 

Aug.  I,  1819 — 

Charles  Richards 
Cyrenius  Beers 
Horace  Hinsdale 

Dec.  18,  1821— 
Knowles  Taylor 
Marcus  Wilbur 

Nov.  I,  1829 — 

Dennis  Davenport 
Alfred  C.  Post 
William  Walker 

Apr.  13,  1845— 
Thomas  U.  Smith 
Gurdon  Burchard 
J.  J.  Greenough 

Apr.  II,  1853— 
Henry  Day 
Henry  G.  DeForest 

Feb.  16,  1862 — 
JosiAH  S.  Leverett 
William  L.  Skidmore 
Horace  J.  Fairchild 

Nov.  22,  1869 — 


chosen 

John  H.  Mortimer 

Frederick  W.  Whittemore 
Mar.  8,  1877— 

Alexander  Maitland 

John  Sloane 

Edgar  S.  Auchincloss 

EwEN  McIntyre 
Mar.  12,  1882— 

Henry  L.  Smith 

George  G.  Wheelock,  M.  D. 

David  Magie,  M.  D. 

Robert  Beggs 
Apr.  12,  1891 — 

John  Inglis 

James  A.  Frame 

James  R.  Jesup,  Jr. 
May  22,  1898 — 

Francis  Forbes 

Joel  W.  Thorne 

Alfred  Vondermuhl 
Dec.  14,  1902 — 

Silas  E.  Hallock,  M.  D.  . 

Matthew  C.  Fleming 

Warner  M.  Van  Norden 
Apr.  I,  1906 — 

Henry  B.  Barnes,  Jr. 

Thomas  Savage  Clay 

James  A.  Hawes 

John  Nicolson 


TRUSTEES. 
The  following  were  members  of  the  Board  of  Trus- 
tees.    To  ascertain  who  were  the  nine  serving  at  any 


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given  date  after  1829,  read  in  the  names  for  the  two 
preceding  years  also.  Our  Trustees  are  elected  three 
every  year,  to  serve  three  years,  and  are  not  immediately 
eligible  for  reelection. 


Mar.  2,  1827 — 

Thomas  Darling 

Robert  Buloid 

Geo.  W.  Talbot 

RuFus  Davenport 

Wm.  H.  Halsted 

Ralph  Olmsted 

Wm.  W.  Chester 

Hem  AN  Averill 
Dec.  2.2,  1827 — 

Joel  Post 

RuFus  Davenport 

Wm.  W.  Chester 

RuFus  L.  Nevins 

Geo.  W.  Talbot 

John  W.  Leavitt 

John  A.  Stevens 

Silas  Brown 
Feb.  20,  1828 — 

John  A.  Stevens 

John  W.  Leavitt 

RuFus  L.  Nevins 
Dec.  8,  1828— 

Geo.  Griswold 

(Resigned  Dec.  14,  1829) 

Silas  Brown 

John  C.  Johnson 
Dec.  14,  1829 — 

John  Taylor 

(Resigned  Dec,  1830) 

Wm.  Howard 

Charles  Squire 

Wm.  C.  Mulligan 
(To  fill  vacancy) 
Dec.  13,  1830 — 

Seth  p.  Staples 

Barzillai  Deming 

Wm.  p.  Stuart 

(Deceased  ,1831) 


Thomas  Darling 
(To  fill  vacancy) 
Dec.  12,  1 83 1 — 
GuRDON  Buck 
Caleb  O.  Halsted 
David  Codwise 

R.   H.   MCCURDY 

(To  fill  vacancy) 
Dec.  24,  1832— 

John  W.  Leavitt 

Najah  Taylor 

Joel  Post 

(Deceased  1835) 
Dec.  9,  1833— 

Wm.  Howard 

Samuel  Stevens 
(Declined) 

Heman  Averill 

(Deceased  1835) 
Dec.  8,  1834— 

Robert  Buloid 

GuRDON  Buck,  Jr. 
Dec.  9,  1839 — 

Gardiner  G.  Howland 

Benj.  L.  Swan 
(Declined) 

David  Lee 
Dec.  14,  1840 — 

Robert  Buloid 

John  W.  Leavitt 

Silas  Brown 

Wm.  H.  Smith 

(To  fill  vacancy) 
Dec.  13,  1841 — 

Wm.  Howard 

James  N.  Cobb 

Henry  W.  Olcott 


JFIftfj  auenue  Pregfiptenan  Ci)urcf) 


93 


Dec.  12,  1842 — 
Wm.  M.  Halsted 

(Resigned  1844) 
John  C.  Green 

(Declined) 
John  A.  Underwood 

(Resigned  Apr.,  1843) 
Dec.  II,  1843 — 
Stephen  Whitney 
Seth  Grosvenot 

(Declined) 
Henry  Andrews 
RuFus  Leavitt 

(Resigned  1844) 
Harvey  Weed 

(To  fill  vacancy) 

(Resigned  1844) 
Wm.  M.  Halsted 
David  Lee 

(Declined) 
John  A.  Stevens 

(To  fill  vacancy) 
Feb.   16,  183s— 
Morris  Ketchum 
James  N.  Cobb 

(To  fill  vacancy) 
Dec.  14,  183s— 
(Gordon  Buck 
Thomas  Darling 
RuFus  Davenport 
Dec.  12,  1836 — 
John  W.  Leavitt 
John  G.  Nelson 
Barzillai  Deming 
Dec.  II,  1837 — 
William  Howard 
James  N.  Cobb 
Henry  W.  Olcott 
Dec.  10,  183&— 
Wm.  M.  Halsted 
John  A.  Stevens 
Dec.   16,  1844 — 
Robert  Buloid 
Geo.  Ireland 


Seth  Grosvenor 
Joseph  Gerard 
John  Auchincloss 

Dec.  15,  1845— 
James  N.  Cobb 
Nathaniel  Halsted 
Thomas  A.  Cummins 

Dec.  21,  1846 — 
Thomas  Hugh  Smith 
Joseph  Girard 
John  Auchincloss 
James  N.  Cobb 

Dec.  27,  1847 — 
Rufus  Davenport 
Edward  Field 
Charles  St.  John 

Dec.  18,  184&— 
George  Ireland 
William  Scott 
Henry  G.  De  Forest 

Dec.  18,  1845^— 
Stephen  Whitney 
James  N.  Cobb 
Thomas  A.  Cummins 

Dec.  16,  1850 — 
John  Auchincloss 
Thomas  Scott 
Thomas  Hugh  Smith 
Stephen  Whitney 

Dec.  15,  1851— 
Rufus  Davenport 
Edmund  Penfold 
Horatio  S.  Brown 

Dec.  20,  1852 — 
Richard  Irwin 
Henry  S.  Terbell 
Henry  G.  De  Forest 
Rufus  Davenport 

Jan.  16,  1854 — 
Wm.  Scott 
James  N.  Cobb 
Wm.  Whitewright,  Jr. 

Dec.  19,  1854 — 
Robert  L.  Stuart 


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Centennial  Celefitation  of  tfte 


Wm.  G.  Lambert 
G.  Talbot  Olyphant 
Jan.  21,  1856— 
Peter  McMartin 
Edmund  Penfold 
Thomas  A.  Cummins 

Feb.  18,  1857— 
Charles  F.  Park 
Henry  S.  Terbell 
Moses  A.  Hoppock 

Dec.  30,  1857— 
William  Scott 
James  N.  Cobb 
Henry  G.  De  Forest 

Dec.  27,  1858— 
Geo.  Talbot  Olyphant 
Thos.  S.  Young 
James  Low. 

Jan.  16,  i860 — 
Lucius  Hopkins 
James  Barnes 
Henry  M.  Alexander 

Jan.  26,  1861 — 
Moses  G.  Baldwin 
Moses  A.  Hoppock 
Peter  McMartin 

Jan.  13,  1862 — 
Edward  H.  Owen 
Edward  S.  Clark 
Robert  Girsen 

Jan.  31,  1863— 
William  Paton 
G.  Talbot  Olyphant 
James  Eraser 

Jan.  20,  1864 — 
Thomas  A.  Cummins 

(For  two  years) 
Henry  M.  Alexander 
Oliver  Harriman 
Jacob  Van  Wagenen 

Dec.  29,  1865 — 
Robert  L.  Stuart 
Robert  Gordon 

(Resigned  1867) 


Lucius  Hopkins 

Jan.  5,  1867— 
William  Paton 

(To  fill  vacancy) 
E.  H.  Owen 
Harvey  Fisk 
James  Eraser 

Jan.  8,  1868— 
John  H.  Mortimer 
Parker  Handy 
Jacob  Van  Wagenen" 

Jan.  II,  1869 — 
John  A.  Stewart 
Moses  G.  Baldwin 
D.  Edwin  Hawley 

Dec.  31,  1869 — 
Robert  S.  Stuart 
William  Paton 
Oliver  Harriman 

Dec.  21,  1870 — 
Robert  Bonner 
James  R.  Jesup 
James  W.  Alexander 

Dec.  22,  1 87 1 — 
W.  K.  Major 
Charles  Lanier 
Jacob  Van  Wagenen 

Dec.  20,  1872 — 
John  A.  Stewart 
Moses  G.  Baldwin 
D.  Edwin  Hawley 

Dec.  19,  1873— 
Robert  L.  Stuart 
William  Sloane 
John  S.  Kennedy 

Dec.  28,  1874— 
James  Low 
Robert  Bonner 
Henry  B.  Hyde 

Dec.  28,  187s— 
Hooper  C.  Van  Vorst 
Henry  A.  Hurlbut 
Henry  M.  Alexander 


iFiftf)  atienue  ptesfipterian  (Hhixttt 


95 


Dec.  26,  1876 — 
John  A.  Stewart 
William  Libbey 
Harvey  Fisk 

(Resigned  1878) 

Dec.  26,  1877— 
Robert  L.  Stewart 
John  S.  Kennedy 
Oliver  Harriman 

Dec.  23,  1878— 
Robert  Bonner 
Noah  Davis 
Robert  Hoe 
Birdseye  Blakeman 
(To  fill  vacancy) 

Dec.  23,  1879 — 
Wm.  D.  Sloane 
Parker  Handy 
Charles  Lanier 

Dec.  28,  1880— 
Birdseye  Blakeman 
Henry  A.  Hurlbut 
John  A.  Livingston 
(Deceased  1882) 

Dec.  27,   1881 — 
Robert  L.  Stuart 
John  S.  Kennedy 
Jacob  Campbell 

Dec  26,  1882— 
Robert  Bonner 
Thomas  C.  Sloane 
Robert  W.  De  Forest 

Dec.  24,  1883— 
Parker  Handy 
Oliver  Harriman 
John  W.  Auchincloss 
Samuel  Thorne 
(To  fill  vacancy) 

Dec.  23,  1884— 
Henry  A.  Hurlbut 
Fred  Sturges 
A.  G.  Agnew 

Dec.  22,  188s— 
John  S.  Kennedy 


Wm.  D.  Sloane 

Samuel  Thorne 
Dec.  28,  1886— 

Robert  Bonner 

Robert  W.  De  Forest 

John  H.  Inman 
Dec.  27,  1887— 

Oliver  Harriman 

John  W.  Auchincloss 

Constance  A.  Andrews 
Dec.  18,  1888— 

Henry  A.  Hurlbut 

Thos.  C.  Sloane 

Frederic  Sturges 
Dec.  24,  1889 — 

John  S.  Kennedy 

Wm.  a.  Wheelock 

James  O.  Sheldon 
Dec.  23,  1890 — 

Robert  Bonner 

Robert  W.  De  Forest 

James  R.  Jesup 
Dec.  22,  1891 — 

Oliver  Harriman 

Wm.  D.  Sloane 

John  W.  Auchincloss 
(Resigned  1892) 
Dec.  27,  1892 — 

Frederic  Sturges 

John  P.  Duncan 

Horace  E.  Garth 

Hugh  D.  Auchincloss 
(To  fill  vacancy) 
Dec.  26,  1893 — 

John  S.  Kennedy 

James  O.  Sheldon 

James  Frazer 
Dec.  27,  1894 — 

Robert  Bonner 

Robert  W.  De  Forest 

James  R.  Jesup 
Dec.  17,  1895 — 

E.  Francis  Hyde 
(Resigned  1898) 


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Centennial  CeleJjtation  of  tlje 


Robert  H.  Robertson 

(Resigned  1898) 
Francis  Forbes 
Dec.  22,  1896 — 
John  P.  Duncan 

(Resigned  1898) 
Horace  E.  Garth 

(Resigned  1898) 
Geo,  G.  Wheelock 
(Resigned  1898) 
Dec.  28,  1897— 
John  S.  Kennedy 

(Resigned  1898) 
James  O.  Sheldon 
James  Fraser 

(Deceased  1898) 
Feb.  14,  1898— 
Samuel  Thomas 
Robert  W.  Stuart 
Geo.  F,  Vietor 
John  W.  Auchincloss 
Charles  P.  Britton 
Geo.  B.  Agnew 

(To  fill  vacancies) 
Dec.  27,  1898— 
Robert  Bonner 

(Deceased  1899) 
A.  G.  Agnew 
Horace  S.  Ely 
Dec.  26,  1899— 
Charles  P.  Britton 
Wm.  C.  McGibbon 
Alfred  Vondermuhl 
Francis  Forbes 

(To  fill  vacancy) 
Dec.  25,  1900— 
Robert  W.  Stuart 
Geo.  F.  Vietor 
Noah  C.  Rogers 


Dec.  17,  1901 — 
Geo.  B.  Agnew 
James  M.  Edwards 
Geo.  Taylor 

Dec.  23,  1902 — 
Francis  Forbes 

(Deceased  1904) 
Stuart  Duncan 
Edgar  S.  Auchincloss 

Dec.  22,  1903 — 
Charles  P.  Britton 
Horace  S.  Ely 
Alfred  Vondermuhl 

Dec.  27,  1904 — 
A.  G.  Agnew 

(To  fill  vacancy) 
Geo.  F.  Vietor 
Noah  C.  Rogers 

(Resigned  1906) 
James  H.  Schmelzel 

Dec.  4,  1905 — 
G.  B.  Agnew 
James  M.  Edwards 
Geo.  Taylor 

Dec.  3,  1906 — 
John  Stew^art 

(To  fill  vacancy) 
Hugh  Getty 
John  V.  Irwin 
Wm.  H.  Woodin 

Dec.  2,  1907— 
C.  R.  Agnew 
E.  S.  Auchincloss 
M.  C.  Fleming 

Dec.  7,  1908 — 
Alfred  Vondermuhll 
James  H.  Schmelzel 
C.  B.  Alexander 


fifth  atjenue  pregljptetian  Cl)urcj)  97 

PRESIDENTS  OF  THE  BOARD. 

FROM  1827  TO  DATE. 

ELECTED 

Joel  Post 1827 

RuFus  Davenport 1828,  1852,  1853 

Wm.  Howard       .        .        1830,  1831,  1834,  1835,  1836,  1838,  1839 

Najah  Taylor 1832,  1833 

Robert  Buloid 1837,  1840,  1841,  1842 

Stephen  Whitney        .       .       .        1843,  1844,  1845,  1850,  1851 

James  N.  Cobb 1846,  1858,  1859,  i860 

Geo.  Ireland 1848,  1849 

Richard  Irvin 1854,  1855 

William  Scott 1856 

Peter  McMartin 1857,  1863,  1864,  1865 

Moses  A.  Hoppock 1861 

James  Barnes       .        .       . 1862 

Edw.  H.  Owen 1867 

William  Paton 1868 

Moses  G.  Baldwin 1869,  1874 

Parker  Handy 1869,  1880 

Robert  L.  Stuart      .        .        .     1870,  1875,  1877,  1878,  1879,  1881 

Oliver  Harriman 1871 

John  A.  Stewart 1872,  1873 

Robert  Bonner  .        1876,  1883,  1884,  1887,  1891,  1892,  1895,  1896 

Henry  A.  Hurlbut 1882 

John  S.  Kennedy         .        .        1885,  1886,  1889,  1890,  1894,  1897 

Thomas  C.  Sloane 1888 

Horace  E.  Garth 1893 

James  O.  Sheldon 1898,  1899 

A.  G.  Agnew 1900 

Alfred  Vondermuhl         .        .        .        .        .        1901,  1904,  1905 

Robert  W.  Stuart 1902 

Geo.  B.  Agnew 1903,  1907 

Geo.  F.  Vietor 1906 

James  H.  Schmelzel 1908 

SECRETARIES. 

H£:man  Averill 

RuFus  L.  Nevins 

Caleb  O.  Halsted 1833 

John  Worthington 1844 

Thomas  Hugh  Smith 1849 

Robert  Bliss 1874 

John  W.  Auchincloss 1885 


98  Centennial  Celebration  of  tfje 


Henry  B.  Barnes 1892 

E.  Francis  Hyde 1896 

Francis  Forbes 1898 

Edgar  S.  Auchincloss 1904 

TREASURERS. 

Heman  Avekill 

RuFus  L.  Nevins 

Caleb  O.  Halsted 1833 

John  Worthington 1844 

Thomas  Hugh  Smith 1849 

D.  Edwin  Hawley 1869 

William  Sloane 1875 

John  H.  Mortimer 1879 

James  Frazer 1883 

John  P.  Duncan 1897 

John  W.  Auchincloss 1898 

William  C.  McGibbon 1899 

Noah  C.  Rogers 1903 

C.  R.  Agnew 1906 


REPORT  AS  TO  WORK  AND  CONDITION  OF 

VARIOUS  SOCIETIES  AND  MISSIONS 

OF  OUR  CHURCH. 

In  a  centennial  year-book  it  is  not  only  necessary  to 
review  the  past,  but  to  give  some  account  of  existing 
activities  in  order  that  the  complete  record  may  serve 
as  a  starting  point  hereafter  for  future  historians  of  the 
church.  The  following  statements  are  concise  and  up 
to  date,  and  have  been  separately  prepared  by  members 
or  officers  of  the  various  organizations  whose  work  is 
thus  presented. 

THE  HOME  BIBLE  SCHOOL. 

If  our  Bible  School  were  to  be  judged  solely  by  its 
numbers  it  would  not  stand  so  well  at  present  as  we 
might  wish.  During  the  ten  years  immediately  follow- 
ing the  moving  of  the  church  from  Nineteenth  Street 
to  its  present  location  in  1875,  the  school  was  the  largest 


Jfjftj)  auenue  Pte0fiptetian  Cl)urct)  99 

numerically  that  it  has  been  in  its  history,  the  attendance 
ranging  from  300  to  375.  To  the  certain  knowledge  of 
many  of  the  people  of  our  church,  however,  the  condi- 
tions which  the  school  has  to  meet  to-day  are  very  dif- 
ferent from  what  they  were  in  the  seventies  and  eighties. 
As  early  as  1897,  when  Mr.  H.  Edwards  Rowland  first 
became  superintendent  of  the  school,  upon  the  death  of 
Mr.  James  Frazer,  who  had  acted  in  that  capacity  for 
twenty-five  years,  it  was  noted  that  the  average  attend- 
ance had  fallen  to  133,  while  the  total  enrollment  was 
193.  Numerous  methods  were  adopted  at  that  time  to 
build  up  the  attendance  of  the  school.  In  1899  a  lady 
visitor  was  employed,  but  though  she  visited  over  1,200 
families  in  the  vicinity  of  the  church  she  found  com- 
paratively few  children  available  for  our  school,  and  the 
attendance  was  not  increased.  A  similar  effort  was  made 
in  1902,  when  about  250  families  were  visited,  with 
about  the  same  results.  The  enrollment  then  was  131, 
with  an  average  attendance  of  about  86.  This  past  year 
the  enrollment,  including  officers  and  the  Men's  Bible 
Class  as  was  done  in  previous  years,  was  249,  with  an 
average  attendance  of  about  107.  A  careful  examina- 
tion of  the  causes  of  the  decrease  shows  that,  as  com- 
pared with  former  years,  there  are  less  children  in  the 
congregation,  and  fewer  who  live  near  enough  to  the 
church  to  conveniently  attend  the  Bible  School.  It  is 
safe  to  say,  however,  that  the  school  is  serving  com- 
paratively as  large  a  proportion  of  the  available  children 
of  our  congregation  as  in  previous  years. 

Numbers  alone,  however,  are  not  the  sole  nor  even 
the  best  test.  It  is  the  work  which  is  and  has  been  ac- 
complished by  the  school  that  brings  us  encouragement. 
"Quality  not  quantity"  is  our  motto.  The  spirit  of  in- 
tense earnestness,  of  unselfish  devotion  and  of  tireless 
effort  on  the  part  of  the  teachers  is  worthy  of  special 
note.  It  is  often  commented  upon  by  those  who  come 
in  contact  with  the  school.     Every  Sunday  morning  dur- 


loo  Centennial  Celetiration  of  tf)e 

ing  the  session  the  teachers  meet  together  in  the  min- 
ister's room  for  a  short  prayer  meeting  before  the  school 
opens  at  9 130,  and  it  is  there  that  the  warm  pulse  of  the 
school  may  be  felt.  This  spirit  necessarily  finds  its 
counterpart  in  the  work  which  is  accomplished  by  the 
scholars  themselves.  As  a  general  rule,  they  are  deeply 
interested  and  do  a  very  considerable  amount  of  work 
at  home. 

Although  monthly  teachers'  meetings  were  begun  in 
1899,  they  do  not  seem  to  have  been  regularly  kept  up 
until  Rev.  Geo.  H.  Trull,  the  then  Assistant  Minister  of 
our  church,  became  the  Superintendent  in  1903.  The 
same  year  the  school  was  moved  from  the  old  Sunday- 
school  room  down  to  the  lecture  room  on  the  ground 
floor  and  the  name  "Bible  School"  was  substituted  for 
"Sunday  School."  The  most  important  development  of 
recent  years,  however,  has  been  the  adoption  of  a  course 
of  graded  supplemental  work  in  systematic  Bible  study. 
This  course,  which  was  prepared  by  Mr.  Trull,  was 
formally  approved  by  the  Session  October  12th,  1905, 
and  adopted  by  the  teachers  October  15th,  1905.  Some 
of  the  courses  were  used  by  the  School  in  1904,  It  is 
the  purpose  of  this  course  to  furnish  systematic  training 
in  such  subjects  as  should  be  familiar  to  every  intelligent 
Christian.  It  was  felt  that  this  could  not  be  accomplished 
by  the  use  of  the  International  Lessons  alone.  The 
school  is  graded  into  Beginners,  Primary,  Junior,  Inter- 
mediate and  Senior  Departments.  Fifteen  minutes  each 
Sunday  are  devoted  to  this  supplemental  work  and  thirty 
minutes  to  the  study  of  the  International  Lesson.  We 
thus  use  a  combination  of  the  two  systems.  In  the  Be- 
ginners' Department  the  lessons  arranged  by  the  Inter- 
national Lesson  Committee  are  used.  In  the  Primary 
Department  the  supplemental  work  consists  entirely  of 
memorizing  important  scripture  texts  and  hymns.  The 
work  for  the  other  grades  is  as  follows : 


ifmi)  auenue  pre0fiptcnan  CI)urcJ)         loi 

Junior  Department. 

1st  year — The  Books  of  the  Bible. 

2nd  year — Bible  Geography. 

3rd  year — Old  Testament  History. 

4th  year — New  Testament  History. 
Intermediate  Department. 

1st  year — The  Bible :  Its  Origin  and  Contents. 

2nd  year — Bible  History. 

3rd  year — God's  Plan  of  Redemption. 

4th  year — Church  History. 
Senior  Department. 

1st  year — Presbyterianism. 

2nd  year — Bible  Doctrines. 

3rd  year — Bible  Ceremonials  and  Customs. 

The  memorizing  of  the  catechism  and  certain  impor- 
tant hymns  is  also  distributed  through  the  four  years  of 
the  Junior  Department.  The  text  book  for  the  fourth 
year  of  the  Intermediate  Department,  entitled  "A  Short 
Course  in  Bible  History,"  was  prepared  by  one  of  the 
teachers,  and  has  been  used  not  only  by  our  own  but  by 
other  schools.  One  of  the  most  important  features  of 
the  course  is  the  study  of  missions.  Ten  Sundays  of 
each  year  are  set  aside  for  the  study  of  missions  in  the 
fifteen  minute  supplemental  work  period.  The  first  mis- 
sionary committee  was  appointed  December  6th,  1903, 
and  consisted  of  Miss  Eleanor  O.  Brownell,  Miss  Mary 
L.  Moorehead,  and  Miss  Marie  Winkhaus.  The  work 
of  this  and  subsequent  missionary  committees  has  been 
most  effective.  Three  series  of  text  books  on  missions 
for  junior  and  senior  grades  were  edited  by  Mr.  Trull 
in  three  successive  years  during  his  connection  with  the 
church  and  were  used  by  the  school.  These  books  have 
been  widely  used  by  other  schools  and  other  denomina- 
tions. Last  year  a  series  of  papers  on  China  were  pre- 
pared by  the  teachers  for  use  in  the  classes.  Missionary 
scrap-books,  a  missionary  bulletin  board,  special  collec- 
tions, and  other  devices  have  greatly  stimulated  the  in- 


I02  Centennial  Celebration  of  ti)e 

terest  of  the  school  in  world-wide  missions.  The  school 
has  continued  its  yearly  contribution  of  $250  to  the  sup- 
port of  Mr.  Martin  B.  Lewis,  who  for  so  many  years 
has  been  engaged  in  the  establishment  of  Sunday  Schools 
in  the  far  West.  The  whole  of  the  collections  is  de- 
voted to  benevolence,  the  expenses  of  the  school  being 
provided  for  by  an  annual  appropriation  of  $300  by  the 
trustees  of  the  church. 

Two  important  changes  should  be  here  noted.  The 
Junior  Missionary  Society,  which  had  been  an  independ- 
ent organization,  was  taken  under  the  jurisdiction  of  the 
Bible  School  on  April  9th,  1904.  The  officers  of  this 
organization  are  now  annually  elected  by  the  teachers 
of  the  Bible  School.  The  other  change  relates  to  the 
Men's  Bible  Qass.  For  thirty-five  years,  from  1871  to 
1906,  Col.  John  J,  McCook  had  taught  a  Bible  Class  of 
young  men  in  the  Home  Sunday  School.  In  December, 
1906,  as  the  result  of  a  meeting  of  the  men  of  the  church 
called  by  the  pastor.  Rev.  J.  Ross  Stevenson,  a  more 
general  Men's  Bible  Qass  was  organized.  This  class 
was  placed  under  the  jurisdiction  of  the  Men's  Society 
and  Dr.  Stevenson  was  its  leader  for  the  first  year.  In 
December,  1907,  Dr.  Edwin  F.  Hallenbeck,  our  Asso- 
ciate Minister,  became  its  leader.  Into  this  class  Col.  Mc- 
Cook merged  his  class.  An  effort  was  also  made  to 
merge  a  class  of  young  men  taught  by  Mr.  Dwight  H. 
Day,  but  without  success,  and  this  class  has  since  been 
taught  by  Mr.  Chas.  F.  Darlington.  Thus  while  the 
present  Men's  Bible  Class  is  technically  under  the  juris- 
diction of  the  Men's  Society,  it  is  logically  a  part  of  the 
Bible  School.  It  absorbed  the  oldest  and  one  of  the 
most  successful  classes  of  the  main  school ;  its  attendance 
is  regularly  reported,  and  its  collections  pass  through  the 
treasurer  of  the  main  school,  and  its  leader  regularly  at- 
tends the  monthly  teachers'  meetings. 

The  school  felt  keenly  the  loss  of  Mr.  Trull,  who  was 
called  last  year  to  the  larger  work  of  the  Secretaryship 


iFiftl)  atienue  prestiptetian  Ci)urci)         103 

of  the  Sunday  School  Department  of  the  Board  of  For- 
eign Missions,  His  influence  in  introducing  a  systematic 
course  of  study  into  the  school,  in  implanting  a  deep 
and  active  interest  in  the  great  subject  of  missions,  and 
in  many  others  ways,  will  long  be  felt.  In  the  fall  of 
1907,  in  the  absence  of  a  regular  superintendent,  Mr. 
Henry  W.  Jessup,  as  chairman  of  the  Session's  Commit- 
tee on  the  Bible  School,  served  as  Superintendent  for 
a  while  until  the  present  acting  superintendent  was  ap- 
pointed by  the  teachers. 

Just  a  word  as  to  the  future.  A  strong  Sunday  School 
in  a  church  is  always  a  healthy  sign.  A  small,  weak 
Sunday  School  portends  a  struggle  for  the  church  in  the 
days  to  come.  Here  is  not  only  where  the  children  and 
young  people  of  our  congregation  are  trained  in  things 
spiritual,  but  it  is  here  that  the  ties  of  attachment  for 
the  house  and  work  of  our  Master  are  fastened  around 
their  young  hearts.  If  we  do  not  train  our  young  people 
to  love  our  own  home  church  and  to  take  an  interest  in 
its  activities,  our  own  home  church  will  lose  them  when 
they  are  most  needed.  The  great  majority  of  the  mem- 
bers of  our  Bible  School  accept  the  Faith  and  join  the 
church.  The  great  majority  of  the  active  workers  in 
our  church  have  come  from  the  Sunday  School.  The 
inference  is  plain.  But  not  only  must  the  Bible  School 
aim  to  train  the  children  of  the  families  of  our  own  con- 
gregation. It  must  reach  out  after  the  children  of  avail- 
able families  in  our  own  neighborhood  who  are  not  al- 
ready connected  with  any  church.  The  Fifth  Avenue 
Church  has  a  special  mission,  and  it  is  a  great  mission. 
In  no  field  of  church  activity  will  a  given  amount  of 
effort  be  so  effective  in  enabling  us  to  fulfill  that  mission 
as  in  bringing  the  children  of  families,  for  which  the 
Fifth  Avenue  Church  is  primarily  responsible,  into  the 
Bible  School  and  in  training  them  up  in  an  intelligent 
and  affectionate  love  for  the  Christian  Faith  and  for  the 
Christian  Church.     The  influence  of  our  church  in  the 


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future  is  largely  dependent  upon  the  effectiveness  of  our 
work  of  to-day.  If  the  Bible  School  fulfills  its  full  mis- 
sion in  the  present  there  is  strong  hope  that  the  church 
will  fulfill  its  full  mission  in  the  future.  The  Christmas 
(1908)  report  shows  the  roll  of  the  main  school  to  be 
43%  larger  than  in  1907. 

OFFICERS 
Mr.  J.  Ard  Haughwout,  Superintendent,  343  West  56th  Street.. 
Mr.  George  C.  Hood,  Asst.  Superintendent,  7  West  55th  Street. 
Mr.  Alfred  Geery,  Treasurer,  203  West  54th  Street. 
Miss  Ethel  Thompson,  Secretary,  30  Elast  ssth  Street. 
Mrs.  Alfred  Geery,  Pianist,  203  West  54th  Street. 
Mr.  Walter  H.  Merritt,  Librarian. 

TEACHERS 
Miss  Marian  G.  Bradford  Mrs.  John  Sinclair 

Mrs.  J.  Ross  Stevenson  Miss  Marie  H.  Winkhaus 

Mrs.  Edwin  F.  Hallenbeck  Miss  Adele  Forbes 

Mrs.  James  H.  Schmelzel  Miss  Helene  Magnus 

Miss  S.  Katherine  B.  Eckerson     Miss  Harriet  Chidester 
Miss  Ruth  G.  Winant  Dr.  Charles  E.  McPeek 

Miss  Grace  Brownell  Mr.  Charles  F.  Darlington 

Miss  Marjorie  T.  Sinclair  Mr.  John  Stewart 

Miss  Ida  T.  Hawkins  Miss  Edith  L.  Shearer 

Mr.  George  C.  Hood 

DUANE  STREET  MISSION. 

When  the  Fifth  Avenue  Church  was  located  atDuane 
Street,  the  Duane  Street  Mission  was  organized,  under 
the  leadership  of  the  pastor,  Dr.  James  W.  Alexander, 
for  whom  it  was  subsequently  named. 

In  the  year  1852,  when  the  congregation  hitherto  wor- 
shiping there  had  found  it  necessary,  because  of  the  rapid 
encroachment  of  business  in  down-town  districts,  to 
erect  another  building  at  the  corner  of  Nineteenth  Street 
and  Fifth  Avenue,  the  Mission  itself  for  similar  reasons 
was  transferred  to  Canal  Street,  near  Varick,  where  a 
splendid  and  extensive  service  was  rendered. 

In  1863  it  was  removed  to  7  and  9  King  Street.  As 
it  had  increased  much  during  these  years  in  strength  and 


^-"■^        %• "4        t|i»i«j        \ 4       'f ■■..*.  if 


ALEXANDER   CHAPEL 

ERECTED   1872 


JFiftjj  aijenue  Pre0ftptetian  Ctjurcj)         105 

numbers,  it  was  decided  to  raze  these  buildings,  which 
were  old  and  greatly  out  of  repair,  and  to  erect  the 
present  chapel  on  their  site.    This  was  done  in  1872. 

The  first  chapel  minister  was  the  Rev.  Samuel  Curtis, 
installed  in  1870,  who,  after  a  successful  pastorate  of 
three  years,  resigned  in  order  to  accept  a  professorship 
in  the  Congregational  Theological  Seminary  of  Chicago. 
He  was  succeeded  by  the  Rev.  H.  A.  Davenport,  who 
did  a  valiant  service,  resigning  in  1878  to  accept  a  call 
to  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Bridgeport,  Con- 
necticut. In  1880,  the  Rev.  Hugh  Pritchard  was  or- 
dained and  installed  pastor.  Mr,  Pritchard,  who  still 
remains  in  charge,  by  faithful  and  efficient  endeavors, 
has  proven  a  potent  factor  in  the  fruitfulness  and  per- 
manency of  the  work. 

ALEXANDER  CHAPEL. 

The  early  records  of  Alexander  Mission  are  so  incom- 
plete that  the  precise  date  of  its  organization  can  only 
be  conjectured  as  above  stated.  It  is  evident,  however, 
that  its  semi-centennial  might  have  been  celebrated  some 
years  ago,  from  the  following  entry  in  Dr.  James  W. 
Alexander's  Familiar  Letters :  "December  25th,  1855, 
three  hundred  and  fifty  urchins  and  urchinesses  were 
present  at  our  cake  and  candy  fete  at  the  Mission.  Our 
two  industrial  schools  promise  well — the  lower  one  on 
Duane  Street  numbers  two  hundred." 

Owing  to  the  encroachments  of  business  and  the  move- 
ment of  the  population  northward,  the  Mission  was  re- 
moved in  the  fall  of  1859  from  Duane  Street  to  a  build- 
ing situated  near  the  corner  of  Canal  and  Varick  Streets,- 
and  in  an  old  loft  heretofore  used  for  the  storage  of 
furniture  the  work  was  carried  on  for  some  years,  being 
marked  by  steady  growth  and  increasing  usefulness. 
While  the  Mission  was  yet  located  on  Duane  Street,  it 
had  enlisted  the  sympathy  and  support  of  Mr.  Thomas 
S.  Adams,  who  for  thirty  years  devoted  much  of  his. 


io6  Centennial  Celebration  of  tfte 

time  to  visiting  and  gathering  neglected  children  into 
the  Sunday  School. 

In  1863,  owing  to  inadequate  accommodation,  and  the 
need  of  a  more  central  location,  two  frame  buildings, 
situated  on  lots  7  and  9,  King  Street,  were  bought  and 
refitted  for  the  end  designed.  During  its  occupancy  of 
these  buildings,  the  Mission  grew  mightily. 

Following  the  advent  of  Dr.  John  Hall  into  the  pas- 
torate of  the  home  church,  preaching  services  on  alter- 
nate Sunday  evenings  became  a  feature  of  the  work — 
attendance  increased,  workers  multiplied,  and  many  were 
added  to  the  church  on  profession  of  faith.  The  need  of 
a  building  adapted  to  the  growing  needs  of  the  work 
became  so  apparent,  that  in  1872,  through  the  generous 
support  of  Messrs.  Bonner,  Alexander,  and  Day,  the 
present  commodious  and  substantial  edifice  was  erected. 

The  first  minister  in  charge  was  the  Rev.  Samuel  Cur- 
tis, who,  after  three  years  of  fruitful  service,  relinquished 
his  pastorate  for  a  professorship  in  the  Congregational 
Theological  Seminary,  Chicago.  He  was  succeeded  by 
the  Rev.  Henry  A.  Davenport.  From  the  records,  it  ap- 
pears that  during  his  pastorate  the  congregation  had  an 
enrollment  of  150,  the  Sunday  School  450,  the  Industrial 
School  310,  and  80  were  received  into  the  fellowship  of 
the  church.  He  resigned  in  1879,  having  accepted  a  call 
to  the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  Bridgeport,  Conn.  In 
the  year  1880,  the  present  pastor  was  ordained  and  in- 
stalled. The  results  attained  and  the  work  accomplished 
during  his  pastorate  cannot  fairly  be  estimated  by  the 
present  membership  of  the  chapel.  Immigration  has 
brought  into  the  field  a  mixed  and  migratory  popula- 
tion— churches  once  strong  and  influential  have  removed 
northward,  while  others  have  become  extinct;  scores  of 
families  who  gave  us  yeoman  service  in  the  work  have 
moved  into  the  outlying  districts ;  foreigners  are  crowd- 
ing into  the  field  who  can  only  be  reached  by  mission- 
aries speaking  their  own  tongue,  and  the  day  is  not  very 


jfiftft  atjenue  pregfiptetian  C|)urc!)  107 

remote  when  existing  methods  of  chapel  work  will  have 
to  be  readjusted  to  new  conditions;  yet,  notwithstanding 
these  drawbacks,  the  work  up  to  date  is  full  of  inspira- 
tion and  encouragement.  The  Sunday  services  have  an 
average  attendance  of  more  than  a  hundred;  the  prayer 
meetings  are  edifying  and  energizing  to  church  life,  from 
60  to  70  in  attendance;  the  several  agencies  relating  to 
the  young  people  and  the  children  (with  a  total  mem- 
bership of  175)  are  in  successful  operation,  while  at  the 
last  two  communions  25  were  added  to  the  church.  The 
number  of  communicants  at  the  present  time  is  224,  and 
membership  of  Sunday  School  is  310. 

Among  those  prominently  identified  at  different  peri- 
ods with  work  of  the  Sunday  School  might  be  men- 
tioned Mr.  L.  A.  Bradley,  Mr.  W.  A.  Ferguson,  Mr.  N. 
A.  McBride,  Mr.  W.  A.  Tucker,  and  Mr.  Henry  B. 
Barnes,  Jr. ;  and  among  those  who  have  made  for  them- 
selves a  record  of  devotion  and  efficiency  in  connection 
with  the  Sewing  School  are  Mrs.  S.  Baker  Shaufiier, 
Mrs.  C.  A.  Remick,  Mrs.  Jane  Thompson,  Miss  Maria 
E.  Eckerson,  Mrs.  Francis  Forbes,  Miss  Augusta  A. 
Smith,  and  Mrs.  M.  L.  Allison. 

A  special  measure  of  gratitude  is  owing  to  those  now 
on  the  field,  whose  faithful  services  have  contributed  to 
the  prosperity  of  the  work :  Mr.  James  Marshall  Stuart, 
Mr.  James  A.  Frame,  Dr.  S.  F.  Hallock,  and  Mr. 
Thomas  S.  Clay. 

Others  deserving  grateful  remembrance,  and  who  have 
gone  to  their  reward,  are  Miss  Jennie  McKay,  for  twen- 
ty-five years  in  charge  of  the  Young  Women's  Bible 
Qass;  Mr.  Edgar  S.  Auchincloss,  a  generous  supporter 
of  the  Mission,  and  Mr.  William  Irwin,  whose  services 
were  an  inspiration  and  encouragement  to  both  pastor 
and  people. 

For  over  half  a  century  the  Alexander  Mission  has 
been  sowing  the  good  seed  and  nurturing  the  precious 
grain,  while  sister  churches  have  reaped  and  gathered  in 


io8  Centennial  Celetstation  of  tjje 

the  harvest,  helping  an  exceeding  great  army  of  neg- 
lected children  to  unfold  to  noble  manhood  and  win- 
.  some  womanhood,  training  and  sending  forth  young  men 
who  have  attained  to  eminence  and  usefulness  as  judges, 
physicians,  authors,  and  preachers  of  the  gospel,  while 
hundreds  of  men  and  women  who  were  outside  the  pale 
of  the  church  have  found  in  its  ministrations  an  impulse 
to  holy  living  and  an  open  pathway  to  spiritual  freedom. 

THE  SEVENTH  AVENUE  CHAPEL. 

About  the  year  1862  members  of  the  Nineteenth  Street 
Church,  so  as  to  extend  their  influence  to  the  West  Side, 
purchased  land  on  Seventh  Avenue,  between  Eighteenth 
and  Nineteenth  Streets,  and  erected  the  Seventh  Avenue 
Mission,  in  which  the  young  people  of  the  Home  Church 
could  take  part  as  teachers  and  be  brought  into  touch 
with  churchless  people  of  the  poorer  district. 

October  26th,  1883,  the  chapel  was  incorporated  under 
the  laws  of  the  State  of  New  York  and  the  following 
Board  of  Trustees  was  elected :  John  Paton,  Thomas  C. 
Sloane,  Morris  W.  Lyon,  W.  L.  Wakefield,  John  W. 
Auchincloss,  William  Alexander,  and  Francis  Forbes. 
Mr.  Thomas  C.  Sloane  was  elected  President;  John  W. 
Auchincloss,  Treasurer;  and  Francis  Forbes,  Secretary. 
The  property  was  leased  to  the  new  Trustees  by  the 
Fifth  Avenue  Church  at  a  nominal  rental,  and  the  annual 
contribution  of  about  $3,600  was  continued  by  the  same 
church. 

Rev.  W.  D.  Buchanan  was  minister  at  the  time  of  the 
incorporation,  and  continued  to  preach  at  the  Chapel 
until  October,  1887,  when  he  was  succeeded  by  Mr.  L. 
H.  Davis,  at  a  salary  of  $1,500  a  year.  Mr.  Davis  re- 
tired in  February,  1888,  and  Mr.  W.  D.  Buchanan  was 
invited  to  resume  the  pastorate,  which  invitation  he 
accepted,  requesting  that  the  salary  be  $2,000,  at  which 
sum  it  was  fixed. 


jFiftf)  atjenue  pre0fjptenan  Cf)urc|)         109 

In  May,  1889,  the  Seventh  Avenue  Chapel  was  organ- 
ized and  incorporated  as  the  Chalmers  Presbyterian 
Church,  with  Rev.  Mr.  Buchanan  as  pastor,  and  the  Fifth 
Avenue  Church  contributed  to  its  support.  The  annual 
sum  of  $3,900  was  for  two  years  and  three  months  paid 
while  it  worshiped  in  the  Seventh  Avenue  Chapel.  The 
Chalmers  Church  in  1892  united  with  the  Thirteenth 
Street  Presbyterian  Church,  of  which  Mr.  Buchanan  be- 
came pastor.  The  Seventh  Avenue  property  was  sold  for 
the  sum  of  $30,000.  The  work  accomplished  by  the 
Seventh  Avenue  Mission  was  similar  in  character  to 
that  now  going  on  at  King  Street.  It  had  its  own 
pastor  and  admitted  members  on  profession  of  faith  or 
by  letter.  When  there  was  a  possibility  of  its  becom- 
ing   self-supporting    it    was    aided    in    that    direction. 

YOUNG  PEOPLE'S  ASSOCIATION. 
The  Young  People's  Association  owes  its  existence  to 
two  boys,  James  A.  Hawes  and  William  Sloane,  who  in 
the  autumn  of  1889  organized  a  small  informal  meeting 
of  some  of  the  members  of  the  Sabbath  School  Class  of 
Mrs.  Lewis  Colford  Jones.  This  idea  was  approved  by 
several  ladies  who  aided  in  carrying  the  movement  to 
success.  It  was  decided  to  make  an  arrangement  with 
the  Men's  Missionary  Society  (the  successor  of  an  or- 
ganization founded  in  1848  by  Dr.  Alexander),  which, 
with  the  waning  years,  had  become  somewhat  inert.  Half 
a  dozen  remaining  members  of  this  Society  in  November 
of  the  same  year  met  at  the  residence  of  Mr.  Fruauf, 
at  which  time  this  old  missionary  society,  with  several 
members  of  Mrs.  Jones'  class,  were  merged  into  the 
Young  People's  Christian  Association.  In  this  way  it 
became  the  direct  successor  of  the  first  organization  of 
the  kind  in  the  country,  and  has  therefore  a  longer  period 
of  history  than  any  other  young  people's  society.  The 
Association  grew  in  numbers  and  enthusiasm,  and  within 
a  few  months  it  was  thought  practicable  to  announce  the 


no  Centennial  Celetitation  of  t!)e 

plan  throughout  the  church,  and  it  was  decided  to  hold 
a  general  opening  meeting  for  organization.  The  first 
regular  meeting  of  the  Association  was  a  social  one  held 
at  the  residence  of  Mrs.  John  P.  Duncan,  on  January 
25th,  1890.  It  had  been  called  by  the  following  ladies, 
who  acted  as  an  Advisory  Board :  Mrs.  Henry  M.  Alex- 
ander, Mrs.  John  P.  Duncan,  Mrs.  Granville  P.  Hawes, 
Mrs.  Calvin  S.  Brice,  Mrs.  Edmund  Coffin,  Mrs.  Lewis 
C.  Jones,  Mrs.  John  Sloane,  Mrs.  John  Sinclair,  Mrs. 
C.  B.  Alexander,  Mrs.  A.  G.  Agnew,  and  Mrs.  David 
Magie.  The  occasion  was  a  decided  success,  and  the 
Association  was  then  and  there  effected,  with  Mr.  Will- 
iam Dulles,  Jr.,  as  President.  Wilbur  Fisk,  James  A. 
Hawes,  William  Sloane,  and  William  Dulles,  Jr.,  ex- 
officio,  constituted  the  first  Devotional  Committee.  The 
next  meeting,  held  two  weeks  later,  was  religious  in 
character,  and  similar  ones  have  been  held  regularly  since 
that  time.  Until  within  the  last  few  years  the  social 
meetings  constituted  a  large  part  of  the  Association's 
activities.  Recently,  however,  it  has  been  thought  no 
longer  necessary  to  hold  such  gatherings,  as  they  had 
accomplished  the  purpose  for  which  they  were  instituted, 
that  of  bringing  the  young  people  of  the  church  to- 
gether. 

The  mission  work  of  the  Association,  which  during  the 
past  years  has  been  of  such  wide-reaching  influence,  was 
first  undertaken  early  in  the  year  1891,  when  Messrs. 
John  Sloane  and  John  S.  Kennedy  leased  and  paid  rent 
for  three  years  of  the  five-story  building  at  the  comer 
of  First  Avenue  and  Sixty-third  Street  for  the  use  of 
the  Association.  The  Boys'  Club  was  first  organized, 
then  the  Day  Nursery,  the  Sewing  School,  and  Men's 
Club. . 

The  distinctly  religious  work  at  Sixty-third  Street  be- 
gan in  1892  with  the  Sabbath  School,  the  sessions  of 
which  were  held  in  a  small  one-story  building  on  the  op- 
posite corner  of  Sixty-third  Street  and  First  Avenue. 


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pi  lupi  V 


YOUNG  pp:ople's  association  house 

ERECTED   J894 


jFiftI)  auenue  pre0ftptetian  C!)urc|)  m 

In  the  winter  of  1891-1892  the  revision  of  the  Consti- 
tution was  effected,  and  also  the  organization  of  the 
Board  of  Workers  as  now  constituted,  in  the  place  of 
the  former  joint  meetings  of  the  Officers  and  the  Ladies' 
Advisory  Committee,  which  until  then  had  conducted  all 
the  affairs  of  the  Association.  The  organization  of  the 
Board  brought  all  the  different  branches  of  the  mission 
work  in  close  connection  with  one  another  and  laid  a 
strong  working  basis  for  future  development.  Mr.  A,  G. 
Agnew  was  at  that  time  elected  Treasurer,  and  has  faith- 
fully served  in  that  capacity  ever  since.  About  the  same 
time,  an  arrangement  was  made  by  which  a  member  of 
the  Session  of  the  church  proper  should  be  elected  Chair- 
man of  the  Board  for  the  purpose  of  acting  as  a  connect- 
ing link  between  the  two  bodies.  Later  it  became  evident 
that  for  the  best  interests  of  the  church  and  Association, 
all  the  property  of  the  latter  should  be  transferred  to  the 
trustees  of  the  church,  and  that  the  raising  of  funds 
especially  designated  for  the  work  carried  on  by  the 
Young  People's  Association  should  be  given  up  in  favor 
of  unrestricted  contributions  by  all  to  the  general  funds 
of  the  church.  The  Session  retained  supervision  over 
the  election  of  officers  and  the  Board  of  Workers,  but 
allowed  a  liberal  scope  to  the  Association  and  its  Board 
of  Workers. 

Additional  branches  of  the  work  were  undertaken  one 
by  one,  and  on  April  the  27th,  1894,  the  new  mission 
building  constructed  for  the  Association  work  was  for- 
mally opened. 

In  1893  the  first  ordained  minister,  the  Rev.  George  W. 
Mead,  was  called.  At  this  time,  meetings  were  held  in 
a  room  on  the  first  floor  of  the  old  building.  Mr.  Mead 
was  succeeded  the  following  year  by  Mr.  John  Mc- 
Dowell, former  General  Secretary  of  the  Princeton  Y. 
M.  C.  A.,  who  also  remained  in  charge  one  year.  In 
1895,  the  Rev.  Charles  I.  Junkin  took  charge  of  the 
work,  and  during  his  term  of  service  did  much  toward 


112  Centennial  Celebration  of  tije 

its  further  organization  and  development.  In  1897,  the 
Rev.  I.  H.  Polhemus  succeeded  Mr.  Junkin,  and  by  his 
efficient  service  aided  greatly  toward  the  present  suc- 
cessful condition  of  the  work.  Owing  to  ill  health,  Mr. 
Polhemus  resigned  in  1901,  and  was  followed  by  the 
Rev.  Frank  B.  Everitt,  during  whose  pastorate  the  work 
increased  in  nearly  every  particular,  and  it  became  evi- 
dent that  it  would  soon  be  necessary  to  erect  a  regular 
church  building.  Steps  were  then  taken  by  the  Board 
of  Workers  to  effect  this  end.  In  1903  Mr.  Everitt  re- 
signed because  of  ill  health,  and  was  succeeded  by  the 
Rev.  Willard  F.  Ottarson,  under  whose  care  the  work, 
especially  in  its  religious  phase,  developed  most  en- 
couragingly. Mr.  Ottarson  resigned  in  the  early  part  of 
1907,  to  be  followed  in  the  pastorate  by  the  Rev.  A.  L. 
Evans  as  Minister  in  Charge,  and  the  Rev.  Paul  R.  Ab- 
bott as  Associate  Minister. 

The  John  Hall  Memorial  Chapel  was  dedicated  in  the 
spring  of  1904  with  fitting  ceremony  before  a  congrega- 
tion of  more  than  five  hundred  persons.  The  church 
building  cost  about  $60,000,  and  as  the  two  buildings 
of  the  Association  cost  in  the  neighborhood  of  $150,000, 
the  Young  People's  Association  and  its  Board  of  Work- 
ers have  presented  to  the  Trustees  of  the  Fifth  Avenue 
Church  property  costing  approximately  $210,000,  free 
and  clear  of  debt. 

During  the  nineteen  years  of  its  history,  the  Associa- 
tion has  not  only  maintained  devotional  meetings  at  the 
Home  Church,  welcoming  all  young  people  to  them,  but 
has  helped  to  keep  alive  among  its  members  an  earnest 
interest  in  all  departments  of  the  church  work. 

Mr.  Dulles,  the  first  President  of  the  Association,  was 
succeeded  in  1894  by  Mr.  Samuel  S.  Auchincloss,  who 
in  turn  was  succeeded  by  Mr.  William  Sloane.  In  1898 
Mr.  Sloane  was  followed  in  office  by  Mr.  James  A. 
Hawes,  his  fellow  founder  in  the  work.  In  1900  Mr. 
George  B.  Agnew  was  elected  President,  and  in  1901 


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Mr.  Thomas  S.  Clay.  Mr.  Clay  held  the  office  for  one 
year,  and  was  followed  by  Mr.  H.  R.  Banner,  who 
served  two  years.  He  was  succeeded  by  Mr.  John  L. 
Rogers,  who  held  the  office  for  one  year,  and  whose  un- 
timely death  was  a  great  loss  not  only  to  the  Association 
but  to  the  entire  church.  Mr.  Dwight  H.  Day  was 
elected  President  in  1905,  and  Mr.  James  A.  Edwards, 
who  succeeded  him  in  1906. 

The  institutional  work  of  the  Association  as  at  present 
maintained  includes  the  following  departments :  A  Men's 
Qub,  a  Boys'  Club,  a  Girls'  Club,  a  Gymnasium,  a  Sew- 
ing School,  a  Day  Nursery,  and  Fresh  Air  Work. 

The  Association  has  recently  become  incorporated  un- 
der the  laws  of  the  State  of  New  York,  in  order  to  better 
carry  out  the  varied  religious,  institutional  and  social 
lines  of  work  in  which  it  is  engaged. 

OFFICERS 

Mr.  Russell  S.  Tucker,  President. 

Mr.  Alfred  E.  Vondermuhl,  First  Vice-President. 

Mr.  Lindon  W.  Bates,  Jr.,  Second  Vice-President. 

Miss  Katherine  McCook,  Secretary. 

Mr.  J.  Roy  Robbins,  Treasurer. 

Sunday  School  .  .  .  .  Mr.  F.  A.  Wallis 
Religious  Work  ....  Mr.  Edwin  J.  Gillies 
Sewing  School         .       .       .    Miss  Amy  Lea  Duncak 

Boys'  Club Mr.  Corwin  Black 

Girls'  Club         ....    Miss  Emily  L.  Charles 

Men's  Club Mr.  Chas.  W.  Barnes 

Gymnasium        ....      Mr.  William  F.  Irwin 

Relief Mrs.  John  Sinclair 

Day  Nursery Mrs.  Geo.  F.  Vietor 

House Miss  Ethel  Thompson 

Entertainment  ....       Mrs.  DeWitt  C.  Blair 

Property Mr.  Hugh  Getty 

Finance Mr.  James  A.  Edwards 


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THE  WORK  AT  THE  JOHN  HALL  MEMORIAL 
CHAPEL  AND  ASSOCIATION  HOUSE. 

The  aim  is  religious,  the  method  institutional.  A  place 
and  activities  are  provided  for  the  development  of  body, 
mind  and  spirit  under  the  best  influences. 

An  ample  gymnasium  with  bathing  facilities  and  under 
competent  instructors  is  a  constant  attraction.  This  is 
for  members  of  the  three  clubs. 

The  Men's  Club  is  a  self-governing,  elective  body  of 

nearly  one  hundred  members.  They  have  comfortable 
rooms  for  social  intercourse,  reading,  music,  bowling, 
and  other  amusements. 

The  Boys'  Club  is  divided  into  sub-clubs.  These  have 
as  pursuits  debating,  amateur  theatricals,  astronomy, 
government,  geography,  printing,  basket-ball,  etc.  A 
Cadet  Corps  is  very  successful. 

The  Girls'  Club  offers  cooking,  dressmaking,  milli- 
nery and  literary  classes. 

The  Sewing  School,  numbering  over  four  hundred 
girls  in  three  departments,  is  manned  by  more  than  fifty- 
efficient  teachers,  and  gives  a  thorough  course  of  in- 
struction. 

The  House  contains  a  Penny  Provident  Bank,  a 
Branch  of  the  New  York  Public  Library,  free  baths,  and 
provides  a  free  Lecture  Course. 

A  most  satisfactory  agent  of  charity  is  the  Sunbeam 
Day  Nursery.  From  fifty  to  sixty  children  are  cared  for 
daily.    A  Kindergarten  is  connected  with  the  Nursery. 

The  work  draws  extensively  from  Bohemian,  German 
and  Italian  nationalities.  These  are  largely  in  the  Sun- 
day School,  which  numbers  over  one  thousand.  Services 
are  held  for  Italian  speaking  people  three  times  each 
week.    Sunday  sees  the  regular  church  services. 

Summer  outings  for  four  hundred  and  fifty  children 
are  provided.  Mothers  are  sent  to  the  country,  young 
people  to  Northfield. 


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ERECTED   1904 


ififtl)  auenue  ptc0ljptetian  C!)utci)         115 

The  aim  is  to  reach  all  classes  in  some  way,  to  min- 
ister to  the  people  from  the  cradle  to  the  grave. 

Rev.  Albert  L.  Evans, 

Rev.  Paul  R.  Abbott, 

Ministers  in  Charge. 

Charles  F.  Darlington, 
President  Board  of  Workers. 

James  Anderson  Hawes, 
Secretary  Board  of  Workers. 

THE  JUNIOR  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY. 

Twenty-two  years  ago  the  need  was  felt  for  an  organi- 
zation for  the  boys  and  girls  of  the  Fifth  Avenue  Pres- 
byterian Church.  Its  aim  to  be  their  own  growth  in 
grace,  the  opportunity  for  helping  those  less  fortunate 
than  themselves  to  whom  the  glad  news  of  Jesus  and  His 
love  had  never  come,  and,  thirdly,  to  promote  a  friendly 
spirit  among  the  children  of  the  church. 

With  this  threefold  end  in  view,  the  King's  Children 
Mission  Band  was  organized  in  November,  1886,  and 
continued  for  twelve  years.  Meetings  were  held  on 
alternate  Saturdays  from  November  to  May,  these  meet- 
ings being  of  a  missionary  character.  The  Band  sup- 
ported scholarship  pupils  in  several  mission  schools,  sent 
Christmas  boxes  to  two  Home  IMissionary  Institutions 
each  year,  and  paid  for  a  large  number  of  Christmas 
dinners  for  poor  families  in  the  city. 

From  1898  to  1900  there  was  no  Society  for  the  chil- 
dren, but  in  1900  the  King's  Children  Mission  Band  re- 
organized, changing  its  name  to  the  Children's  Mission- 
ary Society,  which  name  was  changed  in  1901  to  the 
Junior  Missionary  Society.  This  was  undertaken  by 
members  of  the  Society  for  benevolent  and  mission- 
ary purposes,  and  the  expenses  of  administration  de- 
volved upon  an  advisory  committee  then  in  charge  of 
the  Society. 


ii6  Centennial  Celebration  of  tbe 

It  might  be  well  to  stop  here  to  give  an  idea  of  the 
character  of  this  Society  and  its  meetings. 

The  Society  is  composed  of  boys  and  girls  of  the 
church  between  the  ages  of  six  and  sixteen  years.  It  is 
controlled  by  six  officers  and  three  chairmen  of  commit- 
tees. The  offiicers  are  a  President,  Vice-President,  a  Sec- 
retary, Treasurer,  a  Magazine  Secretary,  and  Treasurer 
and  Secretary  of  the  Little  Light  Bearers,  a  branch  of 
the  Junior  Missionary  Society  for  children  under  six 
years  of  age,  who,  by  payment  of  an  annual  subscription 
and  "mite  boxes,"  contribute  to  the  cause  of  missions. 
The  officers  are  nominated  by  the  Society  and  elected 
with  the  approval  of  the  Sunday  School  under  whose 
jurisdiction  the  Junior  Missionary  Society  has  been  since 
1904. 

The  meetings  of  the  Society  are  held  twice  a  month, 
and  addressed  by  missionaries  or  persons  qualified  to 
speak  on  missionary  subjects.  Occasional  social  meet- 
ings are  held. 

In  1903  a  small  missionary  library  was  donated  to  the 
Society,  and  its  eighteen  books  have  been  read  many 
times  by  its  members.  Later  a  curio  cabinet  was  added, 
but  discontinued  because  we  had  no  place  to  keep  the 
curios. 

In  1905  it  was  decided  to  study  one  Home  and  one 
Foreign  Mission  subject  each  year,  and  since  then  Japan, 
Africa,  India  and  China  have  been  the  Foreign,  and  the 
Indians,  the  immigrants  and  Mexicans  the  Home  Mis- 
sionary topics. 

Two  or  three  years  ago  the  Society  was  divided  into 
two  sections,  graded  according  to  age,  and  manual  work 
meetings  held  alternating  with  the  regular  missionary 
address  meetings. 

In  1907-1908  the  Society  was  again  divided  and  its 
name  changed  to  "The  Boys'  and  Girls'  Missionary 
Clubs."  The  meetings  of  the  boys  and  the  girls  were 
held  at  different  times,  save  for  the  social  meetings  when. 


jfiftf)  auenue  pregfi^tetian  CfjurcJ)         117 

the  two  met  together.  This  plan  was  not  found  prac- 
tical, and  in  April,  1908,  the  Society  adopted  again  their 
former  name,  Junior  Missionary  Society,  and  will  hold 
their  first  meeting  in  November,  under  the  following 
officers : 

President,  Miss  Elizabeth  Pitkin ;  Vice-President,  Mrs. 
Henry  B.  Britton ;  Secretary,  Miss  Sylvia  DeMurias; 
Treasurer,  Miss  Isabelle  A.  Murtland;  Magazine  Secre- 
tary, Master  Philip  Jessup;  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of 
"Little  Light  Bearers,"  Miss  Caroline  Auchincloss. 

YOUNG  WOMEN'S  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY. 

This  Society  was  organized  on  November  30th,  1883, 
under  the  name  of  The  Young  Ladies'  Branch  of  Home 
and  Foreign  Missions.  The  first  President  was  Miss 
Julia  J.  Stimson,  who  held  the  office  until  1893,  when 
Mrs.  William  J.  Schieffelin  took  her  place. 

Since  the  resignation  of  Mrs.  Schieffelin,  in  1899,  three 
ladies  have  held  the  office  of  President — Miss  Clara  R. 
Bradford,  Miss  Jeanie  B.  Duncan,  and  Miss  Marie  H. 
Winkhaus. 

The  average  membership  during  the  twenty-five  years 
of  the  life  of  the  Society  has  been  84. 

The  Society  has  always  been  equally  interested  in 
home  and  foreign  missions.  Six  regular  monthly  meet- 
ings are  held  each  year,  three  of  which  are  devoted  to 
the  consideration  and  study  of  foreign  missions  and 
three  to  home  missions. 

In  1895  a  new  constitution  was  adopted,  and  the  name 
of  the  society  was  changed  to  the  Young  Women's  Mis- 
sionary Society.  The  number  of  officers  has  varied  from 
time  to  time,  but  since  the  adoption  of  the  last  constitu- 
tion, in  1903,  there  have  been  six  officers.  Those  hold- 
ing office  at  the  present  time  are : 

President — Miss  Marie  H.  Winkhaus. 

Vice-Presidents — Miss  Amy  L.  Duncan  and  Miss  Ethel 
Thompson. 


ii8  Centennial  Celefitation  of  tfje 

Recording  Secretary — Miss  Emily  L.  Charles. 

Corresponding  Secretary — Mrs.  George  E.  Duns- 
combe. 

Treasurer — Mrs.  Frederick  A.  Wallis. 

The  work  of  the  Society  has  always  been  carried  on 
through  the  voluntary  annual  subscriptions  of  the  mem- 
bers. For  many  years  a  Bible  reader  was  supported  in 
India  and  a  lady  missionary  in  China,  and  in  our  home 
land  a  number  of  scholarships  were  held. 

At  the  present  time  the  Young  Women's  Missionary 
Society  pays  the  salary  of  Miss  Florence  Stephenson, 
principal  of  the  Home  Industrial  School,  Asheville,  N. 
C,  and  has  one  scholarship  at  Wasatch  Academy,  Mt. 
Pleasant,  Utah ;  one  at  Industrial  Training  School,  Sitka, 
Alaska ;  one  at  Indian  Training  School,  Tucson,  Arizona ; 
one  at  Goodwill  Mission,  Sissiton  Agency,  South  Dakota ; 
and  two  at  Scotia  Seminary,  Concord,  North  Carolina ; 
also  a  special  scholarship  at  Allison  School,  Santa  Fe, 
New  Mexico. 

On  the  foreign  field  it  pays  the  salary  of  Miss  Reubena 
Cuthbertson,  a  missionary  and  trained  nurse  at  Funnka- 
bad  Mission,  Fategark,  India. 

THE  MEN'S  SOCIETY. 

The  Men's  Society  is  the  present  form  into  which  de- 
veloped the  Young  Men's  Social  and  Benevolent  Society 
of  the  Duane  Street  Church  and  Congregation,  which 
was  organized  Sabbath  evening,  March  27,  1842,  with 
a  brief  constitution,  which  was,  however,  in  1845,  ^^~ 
placed  by  a  preamble  and  constitution  of  which  the  origi- 
nal, in  the  handwriting  of  James  W.  Alexander,  is  said 
to  have  been  the  pattern  on  which  the  constitution  of 
the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  in  this  country 
was  established.  It  is  interesting  to  note  in  the  min- 
utes of  this  society  in  the  year  of  its  organization  that 
it  received  overtures  from  the  Ladies'  Foreign  Evan- 
gelical Society  of  the  church  with  a  view  to  combining 


jfiftl)  3tienue  pregtiptetian  Cfturct)  119 

in  the  support  of  an  Evangelist  in  France.  The  annual 
reports  of  the  society  make  most  interesting  reading,  and 
their  monthly  meeting  has  a  decided  devotional  as  well 
as  social  tone,  and  many  phases  of  church  work  and  of 
Bible  study  were  discussed  by  the  members.  The  late 
Charles  Scribner  was  for  a  time  its  Secretary,  and  short- 
ly after  the  war  the  society  undertook  the  management 
and  the  raising  of  money  for  the  mission  schools  of  the 
church,  which  at  that  time  were  on  Eighteenth  Street 
and  Seventh  Avenue.  The  Society  fell  on  sleep  for  a 
time  in  the  late  seventies.  The  activity  in  mission  work 
which  the  society  had  manifested  was  taken  up  by  the 
Young  People's  Association  some  eight  or  ten  years 
later,  while  the  social  and  devotional  side  of  its  work 
strictly  among  the  men  was  revived  at  the  time  of  its 
reorganization  after  Dr.  Stevenson's  installation.  The 
society  has  held  important  and  interesting  public  meet- 
ings in  the  church  parlors  frequently  during  each  year, 
and  has  organized  and  maintained  with  the  assistance 
of  the  pastor  and  of  his  associate  a  men's  Bible  class  on 
Sunday  mornings. 

In  1882,  while  the  Men's  Society  was  at  a  low  ebb, 
several  of  the  younger  men  felt  the  need  of  reviving  the 
work  and  were  instrumental  in  starting  the  Young  Peo- 
ple's Association.  The  names  of  Thomas  C.  Sloane, 
Henry  L.  Smith,  and  William  Dulles  may  be  mentioned. 

The  Young  People's  Association  took  up  the  work 
of  missions  and  erected  the  Sixty-third  Street  building, 
where  now  a  large  religious  and  institutional  work  is 
done. 

When  Dr.  J.  Ross  Stevenson  began  his  pastorate — 
1903 — he  foresaw  the  value  of  the  Men's  Society  as 
an  auxiliary  in  the  work  of  the  Church,  and  succeeded 
in  reviving  it.  Nearly  all  of  the  men  of  the  Church 
and  Congregation  are  members,  and  monthly  meetings 
are  held  in  the  chapel  during  the  winter  and  spring, 
with  a  dinner  at  the  close  of  the  season.     Speakers  of 


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note  are  present  by  invitation,  and  timely  topics  are 
considered,  such  as  the  Russian  Revolution,  by  Abram 
Cahan ;  the  Labrador  Mission,  by  Dr.  Wm.  F.  Grenfell ; 
the  Alaska  Mission,  by  Ex-Gov.  Brady ;  the  Presbyterian 
Brotherhood,  by  Ralph  Connor. 

OFFICERS,  1908-9. 

Warner  M.  Van  Norden,  President. 

Charles  W.  Barnes,  Vice-President. 

Dr.  Andrew  J.  Perry,  Secretary. 

John  Nicholson,  Treasurer. 

Presidents  of  the  Society  from  the  beginning  are: 

H.  G.  Deforest  George  H.  Petrie 

J.  H.  Davis  Robt.  Mc  Carter,  Jr. 

R.  P.  Harris,  M.D.  H.  C.  Van  Vorst 

J.  A.  Stewart  James  Eraser 

Robert  Bliss  John  S.  Kennedy 

William  L.  Skidmore  John  Paton 

Robt.  McCartee,  Jr.  John  J.  McCook 

C.  R.  Agnew,  M.D.  John  Sinclair 

John  Stevens,  Jr.  L.  J.  Armstrong 

Horace  J.  Fairchild  Henry  W.  Jessup,  1905-6 

John  Sloane  Henry  B.  Barnes,  1906-8 

J.  A.  Ewell  W.  M.  Van  Norden,  1908 

THE  SEASIDE  HOME. 

Its  purpose  is  to  provide  a  summer  outing  for  the 
destitute  children  of  the  missions  connected  with  the 
Fifth  Avenue  Presbyterian  Church.  A  place  that,  while 
gaining  physical  health  and  enjoyment,  they  may  have 
the  great  advantage  of  Christian  family  influence. 

So  far  as  is  known,  this  institution  is  the  first  of  this 
kind  established  in  connection  with  any  church.  Many 
others  have  followed.  It  was  about  the  year  1888  that 
the  Rev.  Franklin  B.  Dwight,  who  had  charge  of  one 
of  the  missions,  began  the  summer  fresh  air  work. 

A  house  was  rented  on  the  Atlantic  Highlands,  N.  J. 
A  man  and  his  wife  were  employed  to  keep  the  house. 
But  the  Rev.  Mr.  Dwight  collected  the  children  together 


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and  broug-ht  them  down  to  the  Home,  and  began  the 
work.  There  were  at  this  time  three  missions  connected 
with  the  Fifth  Avenue  Church — Fourteenth  Street  Mis- 
sion, Seventh  Avenue  Mission,  King  Street  Mission. 

Members  of  the  Session  and  others  soon  came  for- 
ward to  estabHsh  and  encourage  the  work.  The  names 
of  the  late  John  Paton,  John  Sloane,  Malcolm  Graham, 
Edgar  S.  Auchincloss,  Robert  Beggs,  and  later  John  P. 
Duncan  will  always  be  associated  with  the  Seaside 
Home.  Their  liberality  made  possible  the  new  site  at 
Branch  Port  in  1891.  Six  acres  were  purchased,  with  a 
fine  house,  orchard,  garden,  and  lawn.  The  situation  is 
perfect.  Directly  on  the  Shrewsbury  River,  which  fur- 
nishes fine  bathing,  fishing  and  boating,  it  is  near  enough 
to  the  ocean  to  enjoy  the  cool  breezes.  A  two  hours'  sail 
brings  ninety  children  down  on  the  "Patton  Line."  They 
have  ten  days'  outing,  and  as  they  return  another  com- 
pany comes.  Five  companies  of  ninety  children  can  be 
accommodated,  making  in  all  four  hundred  and  fifty 
children  during  the  two  months  that  the  Home  is  open. 
The  Home  was  kept  open  for  two  weeks  longer  than 
usual,  on  September  23,  after  the  children  had  gone. 
The  boys'  brigade,  numbering  twenty-five,  with  their 
captain  and  one  of  the  Missionaries,  spent  a  week  at 
the  Home.  The  boys  are  hard-working  boys,  and  sel- 
dom have  a  holiday.  They  were  a  fine  set  of  fellows 
and  had  a  thoroughly  good  time.  After  they  left,  a 
company  of  twenty-two  mothers  came  for  a  week's  rest 
and  enjo)rment,  bringing  their  babies  and  children  who 
they  could  not  leave  behind.  It  was  indeed  delightful 
to  see  how  they  enjoyed  it.  Good  Mrs.  Phillips,  from 
Sixty-third  Street,  came  with  them. 

It  is  hoped  that  the  Home  can  be  more  and  more  used 
for  those  who  need  it. 

After  the  opening  of  the  Branchport  Home,  the  work 
made  wonderful  advance  and  improvement,  chiefly 
through  the  personal  interest  and  earnest  work  of  Mr. 


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and  Mrs.  John  P.  Duncan,  and  to  them  chiefly  the  Home 
owes  the  prosperity  of  to-day. 

The  chapel  and  girls'  dormitory  was  erected  in  1896, 
by  Mr.  John  P.  Duncan.  The  chapel  was  dedicated  in 
July,  1896.  Rev.  Maitland  Alexander,  then  pastor  of  the 
Long  Branch  Presbyterian  Church,  conducted  the  ser- 
vice, which  was  most  interesting.  One  hundred  children 
and  a  number  of  neighbors  and  those  interested  were 
present. 

So  the  Home  entered  on  a  new  era  of  prosperity  and 
usefulness. 

Mr.  Duncan  established  the  religious  services,  to  which 
he  gave  personal  supervision.  Morning  and  evening 
prayer,  a  Sunday  School  on  Sunday  morning,  were  con- 
ducted by  the  Matron  and  her  assistants. 

The  four  o'clock  service  on  Sunday  afternoon  was 
conducted  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Duncan  and  their  daughters. 
They  came  over  from  their  Sea  Bright  home  every  Sun- 
day afternoon. 

Mr.  Duncan  secured,  through  Mr.  William  Campbell, 
preaching  from  clergymen  from  the  Churches  at  Long 
Branch,  and  paid  for  these  pulpit  supplies.  People 
from  the  neighborhood  were  invited  to  attend  these 
services,  which  they  seemed  glad  to  do.  Since  the  death 
of  Mr.  Duncan,  Mrs.  Duncan  most  generously  carries  on 
this  work.  Each  child  that  comes  to  the  Home  is  pre- 
sented by  Mrs.  Duncan  with  a  Bible. 

In  1896  a  Ladies'  Auxiliary  was  formed  in  the  in- 
terest of  the  Sea  Side  Home.  There  are  seventy-five 
members,  each  giving  an  annual  subscription,  the  whole 
amounting  to  $1,700.  This  sum,  in  addition  to  the  an- 
nual collection  in  the  church  and  some  additional  dona- 
tions, has  met  the  current  expenses  of  the  Home.  The 
cost  of  the  maintenance  is  $3,000. 


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SUNBEAM   DAY   NURSERY 
ERECTED  1894 


Jfifti)  atjenue  pre$tipterian  CJjutcl)  123 

The  administration  of  the  Home: 

BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES 

William  Campbell,  Chairman 
Edwin  J.  Gillies,  Treasurer 
Hugh  Getty,  Treasurer 
EwEN  McIntyre  Geo.  F.  Vietor 

S.  S.  AucHiNCLOss  John  J.  McCook 

LADIES'  AUXILIARY  COMMITTEE 

Mrs.  H.  M.  Alexander,  Chairman 

Mrs.  G.  S.  Vietor,  Secretary 
Miss  McIntyre,  Assistant  Secretary 
Mrs.  John  P.  Duncan,  Treasurer 

Mrs.  Logan  C.  Murray  Mrs.  H.  S.  Wilson 

Mrs.  Rudolph  Erboloh  Mrs.  Frederick  Dwight 

Mrs.  Ewen  McIntyre  Mrs.  Carl  Baker 

Mrs.  C.  S.  Baylis 

THE  LADIES'  AUXILIARY  OF  THE  BOARDS  OF 
HOME  AND  FOREIGN  MISSIONS. 

The  Ladies'  Auxiliary  of  the  Boards  of  Home  and 
Foreig-n  Missions,  which  has  become  one  of  the  powerful 
and  efficient  agencies  of  this  Church,  though  started  at  a 
late  period  of  its  history  and  under  the  fear  which  an 
untried  organization  would  naturally  occasion,  has  vin- 
dicated the  wisdom  and  confidence  of  its  founders,  as 
shown  in  the  splendid  record  of  its  benevolence  and 
labor.  Some  opposed  the  formation  of  the  society,  lest 
it  might  divert  funds  from  the  regular  collections,  but 
when  Mrs.  Theodore  Cuyler  came  from  Philadelphia, 
where  she  had  been  a  member  of  Woman's  Board  of 
Foreign  Missions,  she,  with  others  anxious  to  do  this 
work,  overcame  these  fears,  and  the  society  was  started 
on  a  tentative  basis.  But  it  soon  passed  the  experi- 
mental  stage. 

The  first  meeting  was  held  in  December,  1883.  Mrs. 
Theodore  Cuyler  presiding,  and  at  a  subsequent  meet- 


124  Centennial  CeletJtation  of  tfte 

ing  the  constitution  was  formulated,  and  the  following: 
officers  elected  members  of  the  Executive  Committee: 

President, 

Mrs.  Theodore  Cuyles. 

Vice-President, 

Mrs.  Lewis  C.  Jones. 

Secretary  for  Home  Missions, 

Mrs.  Henry  Day. 

Secretary  for  Foreign  Missions, 

Miss  Sheldon  (Mrs.  A.  H.  Smith) 

Treasurer  for  Home  Missiotts, 

Miss  Julia  Baker  (Mrs.  A.  F.  Schauffler) 

Treasurer  for  Foreign  Missions, 

Mrs.  a.  Gifford  Agnew. 

For  nine  years  Mrs.  Cuyler  served  the  Society  with 
untiring  zeal  and  devotion,  until  her  death,  in  1892, 
when  Mrs.  Theodore  Weston  was  chosen  to  succeed  her, 
under  whose  wise  and  able  administration  the  Auxiliary 
endeavors  by  prayer,  contributions  and  the  spread  of 
information  to  advance  the  work  of  Home  and  Foreign 
Missions. 

The  Society  sustained  a  great  loss  in  the  death  of 
Mrs.  Agnew,  who  for  fifteen  years,  from  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  Auxiliary  until  within  a  year  of  her  death, 
so  faithfully  discharged  the  duties  of  treasurer.  She 
left  to  her  fellow  laborers  a  bright  example  in  her  will- 
ing service,  her  generosity  and  her  devotion  to  the  cause 
of  missions. 

The  total  of  annual  subscriptions  and  special  donations 
amounts  to  $229,189,  of  which  $145,046  has  been  paid 
to  the  treasurer  of  the  Woman's  Executive  Committee  of 
Home  Missions  and  $84,143  to  the  treasurer  of  the 
Woman's  Foreign  Missionary  Society  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church. 

The  work  of  this  society  has  not  been  confined  to  a 
few  objects,  nor  within  narrow  limits.  It  has  included 
large  gifts  to  the  General  Fund,  aided  in  the  erection  of 
churches,  chapels,  schools  and  hospitals  both  at  home  and 


jFifti)  atjenue  prestigterian  €bviuii         125 

abroad.  Among  which  may  be  mentioned  the  assistance 
given  in  the  building  of  the  Native  Church  at  Yokohama, 
Japan,  a  Chapel  in  Guatemala,  the  large  interest  it  has 
in  the  Sara  Seward  Hospital,  Allahabad,  and  in  the  work 
at  Hamadan,  Persia. 

The  missionary  work  in  Alaska  owes  much  to  the 
very  generous  support  of  one  of  the  members  of  the 
Society.  Here  hospitals  and  schools  have  been  founded 
and  far-reaching  influences  started,  which  promises  a 
rich  harvest  in  the  future,  as  does  the  very  encouraging 
work  among  the  full-blood  Cherokee  Indians  at  Old 
Dwight  Mission,  and  among  the  mountaineers  of  the 
South;  also  in  the  various  Home  Industrial  Schools, 
where  the  endeavor  is  to  hold  the  children  gathered  in 
for  God  and  their  country. 

The  value  of  the  boxes  sent  each  year  to  needy  Home 
Missionaries  can  hardly  be  estimated.  These  boxes  sup- 
plement meager  salaries  and  often  relieve  cases  of  dis- 
tress and  sore  need.  An  average  of  six  has  been  sent 
annually. 

One  of  the  newer  features  of  the  work  has  been  the 
formation  of  the  Hospitality  Committee.  This  Com- 
mittee makes  from  fifty  to  seventy-five  visits  during  the 
season  on  strangers,  the  sick  and  sorrowing,  besides 
sending  notes   and  flowers. 

The  Society  closes  the  twenty-fifth  year  of  its  life  with 
thankfulness  to  the  Lord  for  the  share  it  has  been 
permitted  to  take  in  the  work  of  this  great  Church. 
Inspired  by  the  record  of  the  past,  may  it  go  forward 
with  new  zeal  and  consecration  in  the  work  of  the 
future. 

The  Society  as  now  organized  has  for  its  oHHcers: 

Mrs.  Theodore  Weston,  President, 
14  West  48th  Street. 
Vice-Presiden  ts : 
Mrs.  C.  D.  Van  Wagenen,         Mrs.  E.  S.  Auchincloss, 
302  West  78th  Street.  24  East  48th  Street. 


126  Centennial  Celetitation  of  tl)e 


Mrs.  J.  H.  Young,  Mrs.  J.  Ross  Stevenson, 

71  East  96th  Street.  19  East  66th  Street. 

Mrs.  J.  N.  Ewell,  Mrs.  Geo.  C.  McMurtry, 

47  East  74th  Street.  812  Fifth  Avenue. 

Mrs.  John  Sinclair,  16  East  66th  Street. 
Secretary  for  Home  Missions.  Treasurer  for  Home  Missions. 

Mrs.  E.  S.  Auchincloss,  Mrs.  A.  Vondermuhl, 

24  East  48th  Street.  25  West  71st  Street. 

Secretary  for  Foreign  Missions.        Treasurer  for  Foreign  Missions.. 
Miss  M.  G.  Janeway,  Miss  Edith  Agnew^, 

441  Park  Avenue. 
Committee  on  Literature.  Box  Committee. 

Miss  M.  Clark,  Mrs.  Wm.  Brookfield, 

175  Madison  Avenue.  516  Madison  Avenue. 

Hospitality  Committee.  Committee  on  Missionary  Corresp'ce.. 

Mrs.  a.  H.  Smith,  Mrs.  S.  B.  Brownell, 

Geneva,  N.  Y.  322  West  s6th  Street. 

Nominating  Committee. 
Mrs.  John  Sinclair,  16  East  66th  Street. 
Hospitality  Committee. 

Mrs.  Andrew  H.  Smith,  Chairman Geneva,  N.  Y. 

Mrs.  Francis  Forbes,  Secretary 8  West  56  Street 

Mrs.  C.  p.  Britton,  Registrar 255  West  75th  Street 

Mrs.  James  H.  Schmelzel,  Treasurer 18  West  s6th  Street 

*  Mrs.  Lewis  C.  Jones 707  Fifth  Avenue 

Miss  M.  Sandford 29  West  56th  Street 

*  Mrs.  H.  Maunsell  Schieffelin 665  Fifth  Avenue 

Mrs.  John  Sinclair 16  East  66th  Street 

Mrs.  Russell  Stebbins i  West  83d  Street 

*  Mrs.  James  Talbot 7  West  57th  Street 

Mrs.  James  H.  Young 71  East  96th  Street 

Mrs.  James  T.  Murray The  Buckingham 

Mrs.  Alfred  Vondermuhl 25  West  71st  Street 

*  Associate  Members.  ^ 

LADIES'  AUXILIARY— EVENING  BRANCH. 
The  Evening  Branch  of  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  was 
organized  in  the  winter  of  'o6-'o7,  with  a  view  to  en- 
listing in  missionary  interest  and  service  those  whose 
duties  during  the  day  would  prevent  their  attendance 
upon  the  regular  sessions  of  the  Auxiliary. 


jfifti)  atjenue  ptestipterian  Ci)urcl)         127 

The  meetings  occur  once  a  month,  and  consist  of  de- 
votional exercises,  consideration  of  missionary  problems 
both  at  home  and  abroad,  and  to  making  garments  for 
the  destitute  immigrants  at  Ellis  Island,  The  President 
of  the  Society  is  Miss  Harriet  Chichester. 

THE  PRINCETON  SEMINARY  ASSOCIATION. 

Mrs.  Alexander  prepared  the  following  account  of  this 
society : 

This  is  the  oldest  benevolent  society  of  this  Church. 
It  was  organized  in  1810,  while  the  congregation  met  in 
Cedar  Street,  and  the  Rev.  Dr.  Romeyn  was  its  pastor. 

The  object  of  the  Association  was  to  aid  young  men 
who  were  studying  for  the  ministry.  These  were  in 
many  instances  sons  of  ministers  and  missionaries.  It 
is  often  by  great  self-denial  that  these  fathers  give  an 
education  to  their  sons.  The  help  given  by  this  Asso- 
ciation has  been  essential  to  the  ordinary  comforts  of 
the  students. 

The  work  originated  with  a  band  of  ladies — a  "Dorcas 
Society" — who  met  at  the  different  houses  of  its  mem- 
bers to  make  garments.  Boxes  of  clothing  were  sent 
every  year  and  a  piece  of  black  broadcloth  given,  so 
that  each  member  of  the  graduating  class  should  have 
a  preaching  suit.  The  late  Mrs.  William  Walker  was 
President  at  this  time,  and,  with  the  assistance  of  Mrs. 
Edwards  Hall,  through  much  hard  work  and  great  dis- 
couragements, held  the  Association  together. 

During  the  next  thirty  years  the  association  changed 
and,  in  some  respects,  enlarged  and  extended  its  work 
and  methods  of  giving. 

Owing  to  Mrs.  William  Walker's  ill  health  and  the 
infirmities  of  age,  she  was  obliged  to  resign  her  position 
as  President,  and  Mrs.  Henry  M.  Alexander  was  ap- 
pointed in  her  place.  There  was  fresh  organization  and 
a  more  formal  arrangement. 


128  Centennial  €tltbtation  of  tbt 

Officers  were  appointed:  Mrs.  H.  M,  Alexander, 
President;  Mrs.  Edwards  Hall,  Vice-President;  Mrs. 
James  H.  Young,  Treasurer;  Mrs.  A.  G.  Agnew,  Sec- 
retary. Fifty-four  members  were  added  to  the  Associa- 
tion and  the  number  of  subscriptions  greatly  increased. 

The  gifts  of  clothing  were  discontinued,  and  work  was 
undertaken  to  improve  the  condition  of  the  students' 
rooms  in  the  dormitories.  Seventy-eight  rooms  in  one 
dormitory  and  sixty  in  another  were  done  over  and  re- 
furnished. Two  large  parlors  were  furnished  for  the 
use  and  comfort  of  the  students.  New  baths  and  fresh 
plumbing  were  provided,  and  many  other  things  to  im- 
prove the  dormitories. 

A  missionary  library  was  furnished.  Three  scholar- 
ships were  taken.  The  good  done  in  a  quiet  way  by 
this  Association  can  hardly  be  estimated  in  its  moral 
effect  upon  the  students. 

The  time  came  when  it  was  thought  best  to  incor- 
porate this  Society,  which  was  formally  and  legally  done 
in  December,  1892. 

A  legacy  of  $3,376.49  was  given  to  the  Princeton 
Seminary  Association  by  Mary  A.  Monahan.  This  was 
deposited  by  the  Association  and  $1,000  paid  to  the 
Rev.  William  M.  Paxton,  D.  D.  The  entire  funds  of 
the  society  were  put  in  a  loan  relief  fvmd  for  the  benefit 
of  the  students  to  be  loaned  in  small  sums  to  meet  their 
immediate  needs.  This  fund  was  also  put  in  the  care 
of  Prof.  William  M.  Paxton,  D.  D.,  and  at  his  death 
into  the  hands  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Purves.  It  is  at  this  time 
in  the  charge  of  Prof.  Wilson. 

The  time  had  come  when  the  Ladies'  Princeton  As- 
sociation (as  such)  laid  down  its  work  and  died  a  tri- 
umphant death,  after  a  life  of  eighty  years,  having  fin- 
ished the  work  which  God  had  given  it  to  do. 

From  the  early  days  of  the  Church  the  interest  of  the 
congregation  has  been  centered  in  Princeton  Seminary. 
Of  its  pastors  there  have  been  those   who  have  come 


ififti)  atJenue  Pregfiptetian  C&urci)         129 

from  the  seminary's  professional  chairs.  From  its  pul- 
pit and  pastorate  the  Church  has  in  turn  given  men  to 
teach  in  Princeton.  It  is  fitting,  for  this  reason,  that 
there  should  be  not  only  this  link  of  interest  between 
the  oldest  seminary  and  the  most  important  church  of 
our  great  denomination,  as  well  because  the  teaching  of 
the  Fifth  Avenue  Church  from  its  pulpit  and  the  teach- 
ings of  the  seminary  by  its  professors  have  been  iden- 
tical with  and  loyal  to  the  standards  of  the  denomination 
to  which  they  belong. 

CHINESE  SUNDAY  SCHOOL. 

The  Chinese  Sunday  School  was  opened  by  Rev.  Dr. 
John  Hall,  Sunday  evening,  March  22,  1885,  in  the 
Lecture  Room  of  the  Church,  with  eighty-five  Chinese, 
twenty-two  teachers,  and  many  visitors. 

The  following  October  rooms  were  rented  at  20  West 
Fifty-ninth  Street,  and  later  at  9  East  Fifty-ninth  Street, 
where  the  School  has  convened  until  now.  On  October 
18,  1908,  the  School  held  its  first  session  in  the  new 
and  permanent  home,  "The  Chinese  Mission  House  of 
New  York,"  223  and  225  East  Thirty-first  Street. 

Many  hundreds  of  Chinese  have  thus  come  under 
Christian  influence.  Thirty-nine  have  been  received  into 
the  fellowship  of  our  church,  where  most  of  them  were 
baptized.  Our  School  is  known  as  "The  Home  of  the 
Chu  Family,"  because  most  of  its  Chinese  belong  to  that 
royal  Clan  of  Ha  Lo',  Sun  Ui,  Canton  Province. 

Fourteen  of  our  Communicants  and  other  Christian 
Chinese,  and  many  who  have  attended  the  school,  have 
returned  to  remain  in  China.  These  have  taught  and 
preached  in  their  market  town.  Goo  Jeng,  where  this 
year  has  been  dedicated  a  new,  commodious,  self-sup- 
porting church.  At  Ha  Lo'  will  soon  be  laid  the  corner- 
stone "of  the  Church  in  our  village  to  commemorate  the 
beautiful  name  of  our  beloved  Dr.  John  Hall." 

As  a  tribute  of  grateful  love  to  their  glorified  Pastor, 


I30  Centennial  Celebration  of  tj)e 

the  Chinese  and  their  friends  gave  "The  Dr.  John  Hall 
Memorial  Scholarship,  in  perpetuity,"  to  The  Christian 
College. 

Our  Christians  at  home,  with  the  help  of  our  school 
here,  organized  and  maintain  a  flourishing  Day  School 
and  Sunday  Bible  School  for  Women  and  Girls.  The 
Girls'  School,  taught  by  Miss  Chu  Shu  Fay,  is  strong 
in  Christian  influence  and  full  of  promise. 

Our  Christians  there  have  organized  a  Y.  M.  C.  A., 
and  every  evening  they  gather  the  youth  of  the  village, 
teaching  them  English  and  mathematics,  closing  with  a 
Gospel  service.  We  have  also  supported  a  Bible  Woman 
in  Ha  Lo'. 

Prayer,  the  Christian's  vital  breath,  has  been  the  life 
of  our  School.  The  Chinese  Prayer  Meetings  and  Ser- 
vice of  Song,  held  before  school,  are  Gospel  Meetings, 
and  a  means  of  training  our  Christians  for  Evangelistic 
work.  The  Teachers'  Prayer  Meetings,  led  by  the  Su- 
perintendent, have  been  full  of  spiritual  power. 

Mr.  William  Campbell  was  appointed  in  charge  of  the 
Chinese  work,  October,  1885.  Since  then  he  has  con- 
ducted the  School  with  untiring  devotion,  in  the  spirit 
of  the  Master.  The  workers  have  been  apt  to  teach, 
prayerful,  zealous  for  souls.  The  School  is  grateful  to 
God  for  the  cordial  sympathy  and  support  of  pastors 
and  people,  and  for  the  new  facilities  for  greater  useful- 
ness. 

The  Chinese  Sunday  School,  begun  and  extended  by 
the  Lord,  will,  by  His  grace,  continue  to  save  souls 
until  it  has  accomplished  its  part,  in  His  plan  of  eternal 
love,  for  the  redemption  of  the  world,  "and  to  His  name 
be  the  praise." 

(Miss)  Charlotte  C.  Hall,  Assistant  Supt. 

Committee  of  Session. 

Mr.  William  Campbell,  Supt. 

Mr.  James  Talcott  Mr.  James  A.  Frame 


JFiftI)  atjenue  preslipterian  C|)utcJ)          131 

Teachers. 

Miss  Helen  S.  Bergmann 

Mrs.  Henry  W.  Bookstaver 

Miss  Julia  R.  Congdon 

Miss  Charlotte  S.  Fruauf 

Miss  Margaret  Cooper 

Mr.  George  L.  Fruauf 

Mrs 

.  S.  W.  Lincoln 

Mr.  James  A.  Frame 

Mr. 

Morris  Schiffert 

Miss  Grace  Meeker 

Mrs 

.  Morris  Schiffert 

Mrs.  Wilbur  McBride 

Mr.  Edward  J.  Brown 

Miss  Florence  Thurber 

Miss  Florence  White 

Miss  C.  C.  Hall 

Missionary  Visitor,  Mrs. 

Jessie  G.  Schiffert. 

Communicants. 

Mr. 

Chu  Hom  + 

Mr.  Chu  Sing 

Mr.  Chu  Een  CnoRf 

Mr.  Chu  Soo  Gyp. 

Mr. 

Chu  Ball* 

Mr.  Chu  Sod  Yon 

Mr. 

Lem  Ling  FoNcf 

Mr.  Chu  Ah  Saam  f 

Mr. 

Chu  Ah  Chew  | 

Mr.  Choy  Ching 

Mr. 

Chu  B.  Wong 

Mr.  Chu  Mow  f 

Mr. 

Chu  B.  LuNGf 

Mr.  Chu  Bing  Fax 

Mr. 

Chu  Chee 

Mr.  Chu  DoNf 

Mr. 

Chu  Gain 

Mr.  Chu  FooKf 

Mr. 

Chu  Foon  Ki 

Mr.  Chu  Homm 

Mr. 

Chu  Fung 

Mr.  Chu  Hong  Haw 

Mr. 

Chu  Yen  f 

Mr.  Chu  Hong  Yu  f 

Mr. 

Lem  Doo 

Mr.  Chu  Jim  f 

(Henry  Lum) 

Mr.  Jung  Luke* 

Mr. 

Chu  M.  Seung 

Mr.  Chu  Lit 

Mr. 

Chu  Kew  Hong* 

Mr.  Ng  Band  Sheck 

Mr. 

Chu  Nim  \ 

Mr.  Nie  Woo  Soon 

Mr. 

Chu  Poo  Wah 

Mr.  Chu  Faie  Loong 

Mr. 

Chu  Sam  Toy 

Mr.  Chu  Kee 

Mr. 

Chu  Shir 

*  Deceased. 

Mr. 

Chu  S.  YEONGf 

•I"  In  China. 

WOMAN'S   EMPLOYMENT   SOCIETY. 

This  helpful  woman's  work  for  woman  has  been  car- 
ried on  by  the  ladies  of  the  congregation  for  nearly 
half  a  century.  The  records  go  back  to  1867.  Mrs. 
Edwards  Hall,  of  the  Distributing  Committee,  has  given 
out  to  date  52,156  garments.  Between  eighty  and  one 
hundred  women  are  thus  employed  each  season.     Miss 


132  OEentennial  Cciclsration  of  tfte 

Harriet  Edwards  has  been  the  Almoner  of  the  Lord's 
spiritual  bounty  to  the  women  while  they  wait  for  their 
work. 

The  bond  of  Christian  sympathy  and  mutual  helpful- 
ness, expressed  in  many  kindly  and  practical  ways,  make 
these  Tuesday  mornings  at  the  Church  such  as  savor 
of  the  perfume  of  the  breaking  of  the  Alabaster  box. 

OFFICERS 

Mrs.  William  Irwin,  First  Directress. 

Mrs.  H.  Edwards  Rowland,  Second  Directress. 

Mrs,  Richard  J.  Thompson,  Third  Directress. 

Mrs.  Gustav  Bauman,  Treasurer. 

Mrs.  Charlotte  C.  Hall,  Secretary. 

THE  LOAN  RELIEF  ASSOCIATION. 

This  Society  was  incorporated  Nov.  6,  1878.  It  grew 
out  of  the  needs  of  Mrs.  Paddock's  (nee  Miss  Sarah 
Sands)  and  Miss  Avery's,  of  blessed  memory,  large 
Sabbath  evening  Bible  Class  at  The  Seventh  Avenue 
Mission.  It  has  created  a  system  of  assisting  the  worthy 
poor  and  needy.  It  was  the  first  institution  of  the  kind 
in  this  great  Union.  Information  was  constantly  sought 
and  Loan  Relief  Associations  organized  in  many  places, 
even  across  the  Atlantic.  Relief  by  loans  is  one  of  the 
best  ways  to  be  charitable,  for  it  helps  the  worthy  poor 
to  become  self-sustaining.  Dr.  John  Hall  considered  it 
one  of  the  best  and  wisest  for  Christian  benevolent  work 
in  the  Church.  There  were  many  helpful  agencies  con- 
nected with  the  Association,  to  meet  the  manifold  needs 
of  the  poor  in  times  of  sickness  and  trial. 

The  Loan  Relief  is  now  continued  in  connection  with 
The  Woman's  Employment  Society,  on  Tuesday  morn- 
ings, under  the  care  of  Mrs.  Frederick  L.  Bradley. 

ROMEYN  CHAPEL. 
The  work  was  inaugurated  by  the  efforts  of  a  number 
of    Christian    people    connected    with    the    Presbyterian 


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ROMEYN  CHAPEL 

FOURTEENTH  STREET 


ififtt)  a:tjenue  pre0tjptenatt  Ct)utci)         133 

Church  who  organized  a  Sabbath  School  in  the  spring 
of  1858  in  a  loft  over  at  blacksmith's  shop  at  416  East 
Fourteenth  Street.  During  the  first  four  years  its  mem- 
bership so  greatly  increased  that  it  became  necessary  to 
secure  a  larger  room,  and  permission  was  granted  to 
move  into  the  audience  room  of  the  public  school  build- 
ing on  Fourteenth  Street.  Here  the  numbers  grew  un- 
til, in  the  year  1864,  over  eight  hundred  children  were 
in  attendance.  During  this  period,  many  friends  from 
neighboring  churches  became  teachers  in  the  school. 

The  sessions  were  first  held  in  a  part  of  the  city  greatly 
neglected  by  Christian  workers,  and  one  found  many  dif- 
ficulties with  which  to  com^bat.  During  the  first  year 
every  window  in  the  building  was  broken,  but  by  the  aid 
of  the  police,  the  school  was  continued,  and,  in  the  course 
of  time  the  neighborhood  changed  for  the  better.  The 
first  superintendent  was  Mr.  J.  M.  Cowperthwaite. 
After  about  seven  years  he  removed  from  the  city,  and 
for  one  year  Mr.  Robert  McCartee  was  the  superin- 
tendent. In  1866,  the  Mission  was  under  the  care  of  Mr. 
Samuel  D.  Davis,  who  continued  the  superintendency  un- 
til the  year  1878,  when  succeeded  by  Mr.  John  Sinclair. 

In  1866,  the  Rev.  U.  G.  Wenner,  at  the  time  a  student 
in  Union  Theological  Seminary,  was  engaged  as  the  first 
paid  visitor.  Soon  thereafter  the  people  desired  a  church 
organization,  and,  with  its  consent,  Mr.  Wenner,  who 
was  connected  with  the  Lutheran  Synod,  withdrew  from' 
the  school  and  rented  the  church  building  on  Avenue  B. 
and  Sixth  Street,  and  with  the  majority  of  members 
commenced  services  at  that  place.  In  the  autumn .  of 
1878,  the  building  at  240  East  Fourteenth  Street  was 
purchased  from  St.  George's  Church,  and  on  February 
the  loth,  1879,  the  school  removed  to  that  place,  and  the 
chapel  was  incorporated  under  the  title  of  Romeyn 
Chapel  of  the  City  of  New  York.  The  incorporators 
were   Sam'l   D.   Davis,   C.   R.   Agnew,  Wm.   Campbell^ 


134  Centennial  Celebration  of  tbt 

Ewen  Mclntyre,  John  Sinclair,  D.  M.  Walbridge,  J.  V. 
Van  Santvoord,  Alex.  Maitland,  Robert  Hoe,  Robt.  S. 
Maitland,  H.  G.  De  Forrest. 

In  the  spring  of  1879,  the  Rev.  E.  L.  Mapes  was 
called  to  the  pastorate  and  superintendency  of  the  school. 
He  continued  to  labor  there  for  about  a  year,  being  suc- 
ceeded in  May,  1880,  by  the  Rev.  George  Van  Deurs, 
who  was  followed  in  January,  1883,  by  the  Rev.  Frank- 
lin Dwight,  who  remained  in  charge  until  February, 
1886,  when  he  resigned  and  was  succeded  by  the  Rev. 
A.  H.  McKinney.  The  Rev.  Thomas  Attenson  was 
stated  supply  from  November  30th,  1887,  to  November 
1st,  1885.  In  February,  1889,  the  Rev.  Herbert  M.  An- 
dres was  called  to  the  pastorate.  He  was  followed  in 
May,  1890,  by  the  Rev.  Thomas  Douglass,  who  was  suc- 
ceeded in  1897  by  the  Rev.  J.  P.  Dawson.  In  the  au- 
tumn of  1898,  the  Rev.  J.  Campbell  Neil  succeeded  Mr. 
Douglass,  and  in  May,  1900,  the  Rev.  W.  A.  McKenzie 
was  called  to  the  pastorate,  remaining  in  the  charge  until 
1904,  when  the  work  was  merged  into  that  of  the  Four- 
teenth Street  Presbyterian  Church.  The  chapel  was  sold, 
owing  to  the  fact  that  near-by  churches  had  planted  so 
large  a  number  of  chapels  in  the  district  that  opportuni- 
ties for  service  had  become  greatly  curtailed,  and  the 
care  of  the  people  was  assumed  by  the  Fourteenth  Street 
Church  a  few  blocks  away. 

The  interest  on  the  fund,  or  proceeds,  of  the  sale  was 
used  partly  to  assist  the  Fourteenth  Street  Church  in  car- 
rying on  the  work  and  partly  for  our  other  chapels  and 
schools. 

From  a  personal  letter  of  S.  D.  Davis  we  extract  the 
following  items,  showing  some  of  the  "fruit"  and  its 
character : 

"In  the  course  of  time,  some  influences  of  the  Mission 
have  incidentally  come  to  my  knowledge.  The  Rev.  John 
G.  Dyer,  now  a  pastor  of  a  Baptist  Church  in  this  State, 


jFiftJ)  auenue  ptegtjpterian  Cfturct)  135 

has  written  saying  that  in  1862  he  attended  the  school. 
He  was  a  very  poor  boy,  Hving  on  Avenue  A.  He  writes 
that  he  has  been  a  pastor  for  forty  years." 

"A  boy  named  Davis  attended  the  school.  He  after- 
wards joined  the  army,  and  for  a  number  of  years  was 
in  active  service.  He  afterwards  became  a  Baptist  min- 
ister. After  thirty-eight  years  of  good  work,  he  became 
paralyzed,  and  is  now  in  a  home  in  Germantown.  He 
(Rev.  J.  L.  Davis)  is  said  to  have  rendered  unusual 
service." 

"Another  boy,  Charles  Fischer,  became  a  Methodist 
pastor  of  a  church  on  Long  Island.  I  saw  him  about 
fifteen  years  since,  but  do  not  know  his  address  now." 


136  Centennial  Celebration  of  tfte 


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of  ti)e 

Centennial  Celebration 

PREFATORY  NOTE. 

The  actual  services  of  the  celebration  began  with  the 
preparatory  service  in  the  chapel  on  December  i8,  and 
continued,  as  shown  by  the  program,  through  the  Wednes- 
day evening  service  of  December  23. 

In  the  sermons  and  addresses  that  follow,  many  fugi- 
tive facts  are  amberized  that  were  omitted  from  the  frag- 
mentary history  that  precedes.  References  to  persons 
and  to  deeds — to  great  movements  and  philanthropies — 
identified  with  or  related  to  our  church  contained  in  the 
formal  addresses,  are  in  contrast  with  the  eloquent,  ap- 
preciative or  suggestive  remarks  made  at  the  delightful 
social  reception  at  Mrs.  Alexander's. 

Some  of  these  suggestions  may  bear  fruit.  Some  of 
this  fruit  may  ripen  but  slowly.  To  what  extent  our 
church  may  be  "cathedralized,"  as  one  speaker  suggested, 
is  not  clear.  To  what  extent  the  new  school  of  sartorial 
homiletics,  also  described  by  this  speaker,  will  invade  our 
theological  seminaries  and  create  a  class  of  pulpit  special- 
ists it  will  be  interesting  to  observe. 

The  spiritual  influences  of  the  Gipsy  Smith  services 
that  preceded  our  centennial,  deepened  by  the  communion 
with  which  that  centennial  opened,  together  with  the 
stimulating  effect  of  the  review  of  the  past  and  the  clarion 
call  to  wider  ser«vice  in  the  future,  must  combine  to 
strengthen  our  church  life  and  avert  any  disposition  to 
reactionary  indolence. 

If  so,  we  shall  be  constantly  and  increasingly  grateful 
to  the 

"God  of  our  fathers,  from  whose  hand 
The  centuries  fall  like  grains  of  sand." 


iFiftft  3tjenue  presfiptetian  Cl)urc6         137 

The  addresses  follow  in  chronological  order  without 
further  preface  or  comment. 

AT  THE  PREPARATORY  SERVICE  the  address 
was  delivered  by  Edwin  F.  Hallenbeck,  D.  D.,  Associate 
Pastor,  on  the  text :  "Who  knoweth  whether  thou  art  come 
to  the  kingdom  for  such  a  time  as  this." — Esther  IV:  4. 

One  of  the  most  fascinating  incidents  in  Bible  history, 
one  of  the  most  dramatic,  one  of  the  rarest  in  its  lessons 
for  life,  is  the  story  of  this  Jewish  maiden  who  was 
brought  near  to  the  throne  of  Ahasuerus  that  she  might 
turn  the  destinies  of  her  people  and  save  them  from  a 
cruel  fate.     *     *     * 

Mordecai  is  laying  bare  Esther's  obligation  to  God. 
He  insists  that  such  goodness  demands  recognition,  that 
to  turn  aside  from  its  just  appeal  would  be  basest  in- 
gratitude. Surely  we  dare  not  be  dull  to  this  considera- 
tion in  these  anniversary  days.  The  first  note  to  be 
struck  to-night  is  the  note  of  praise.  One  hundred  years 
of  Divine  mercy.  Five  thousand  Sabbaths  each  one  of 
them  rich  in  the  favor  of  God.  Men  noble  and  true  have 
stood  in  this  pulpit  to  proclaim  the  unsearchable  riches 
of  Christ  and  point  lost  souls  to  the  Lamb  of  God  that 
taketh  away  the  sin  of  the  world.  Men  consecrated  and 
courageous  have  borne  before  this  people  the  vessels  of 
the  Lx)rd.  If  it  were  possible  to  sum  up  the  blessings  of 
these  years  what  a  deluge  of  grace  would  pour  in  upon 
us.  Who  shall  tell  the  noble  aspirations  that  have  been 
kindled,  the  holy  impulses  that  have  been  awakened,  the 
tears  of  contrition  that  have  flowed  from  eyes  that  caught 
their  first  vision  of  the  Saviour's  face.  Who  shall  num- 
ber the  hearts  that  have  been  renewed,  the  lives  that 
have  been  transformed,  the  homes  that  have  been  glad- 
dened with  light  from  the  throne.  Where  is  the  historian 
who  can  pen  a  record  of  the  influences  which  have  gone 
out  from  this  church  into  the  city,  throughout  the  land 
and  unto  the  ends  of  the  earth.  Let  the  doxologies  be 
loosed  to-night,  let  the  hosannas  of  God  leap  from  lip 


138  Centennial  Celebration  of  t|)e 


to  lip  as  we  call  upon  all  that  is  within  us  to  magnify 
the  precious  Name. 

But  we  cannot  pay  this  obligation  in  words  alone.  The 
Psalmist's  question  should  find  a  place  on  every  tongue, 
"What  shall  I  render  unto  the  Lord,  for  all  his  benefits  ?" 
and  if  we  shall  honestly  seek  to  know  the  will  of  God, 
the  summons  of  my  text  will  force  itself  upon  us.  "Thou 
art  come  to  the  Kingdom  for  such  a  time  as  this."  The 
past  is  peculiarly  rich,  but  the  past  is  gone.  The  days 
through  which  we  have  come  are  only  the  preparation 
for  this  day.  Every  event  in  the  history  of  these  ten 
decades  has  been  moving  in  solemn  procession  toward 
this  hour.  Here  is  the  focal  point.  We  must  find  the 
meaning  of  the  past  in  the  opportunity  of  the  present. 
The  gifts  we  have  received,  the  victories  we  have  won, 
the  lessons  we  have  learned,  the  discipline  we  have  en- 
dured, the  losses  we  have  suffered,  the  prayers  and  tears 
and  sacrifices  and  toils  all  press  their  shining  fingers  upon 
the  spot  where  we  stand  to-night.  Listen,  oh  ye  people 
of  God,  listen,  as  these  influences  of  a  century  each  takes 
to  itself  a  voice  and  you  will  hear  them  say,  "Thou  art 
come  to  the  Kingdom  for  such  a  time  as  this."     *     *     * 

Great  problems  are  pressing  upon  us.  Some  of  them 
great  enough  to  threaten  our  national  honor,  some  of 
them  strong  enough  to  strike  at  the  very  heart  of  the  in- 
stitutions we  cherish.  The  saloon  goes  with  its  vile 
traffic,  dealing  in  heartaches  and  tears  and  human  blood. 
Divorce  threatens  to  loosen  the  foundation  stones  of 
the  American  home.  Sabbath  desecration  stalks  abroad 
gaining  new  vantage  ground  with  every  year  until  our 
dreams  of  the  future  are  darkened  with  the  hideous 
nightmare  of  a  Continental  Sunday.  The  chasm  be- 
tween capital  and  labor  has  not  been  bridged.  Multitudes 
are  drifting  away  from  the  church.  This  is  a  time  for 
brain  power  and  moral  muscle  and  spiritual  gianthood. 

A  paralyzing  indifference  has  fallen  upon  the  church. 
Her  machinery  is  splendid,  her  treasury  has  never  been 


jFjftJ)  atienue  ptegfiptetian  CI)Utcl)         139 

so  full,  her  numbers  have  never  been  so  large,  her  society- 
has  never  been  so  select.  She  has  all  that  is  needed  for 
her  comfort.  She  is  tempted  to  be  at  ease.  .  This  means 
to  close  her  eyes  to  the  vision  of  human  distress. 

Yet  this  is  the  day  of  God's  power.  He  is  working 
marvels  among  the  sons  of  men.  The  nations  of  the 
earth  are  like  chessmen  in  His  hands,  He  moves  them 
wheresoe'er  He  will.  He  reaches  from  His  throne,  and 
■opens  doors  for  the  entrance  of  His  gospel.  The  forces 
of  nature  are  revealing  their  secrets  and  offering  their 
resources.  In  the  spiritual  realm,  God  is  inspiringly 
active.  He  is  calling  His  people  to  a  richer  experience. 
He  is  giving  them  glimpses  of  a  life  of  power.  He  is 
showing  them  the  dishonor  of  offering  Him  less  than  a 
whole-hearted  service.  He  is  taking  possession  of  humble 
souls  and  through  them  working  miracles  of  grace.  By 
means  of  the  heroism  and  martyrdom  of  His  heralds.  He 
is  putting  to  shame  the  accursed  selfishness  of  a  worldly 
church.     *     *     * 

These  are  some  of  the  conditions  we  must  face,  and 
God  has  brought  us  as  a  church  to  this  hour  that  we 
may  help  to  meet  them. 

We  are  to  have  part  in  making  the  church  a  vita 
force  in  the  world.  Jesus  said  of  her :  She  is  the  salt  of 
the  earth,  and  the  mission  of  salt  is  to  sweeten,  to 
purify.  He  also  called  her  the  light  of  the  world,  and  the 
business  of  light  is  to  shine  away  the  darkness.  The 
church  should  touch  and  beautify  every  relation  of  life. 
Its  influence  ought  to  permeate  business  and  statecraft 
and  social  affairs.  The  church  should  be  a  guarantee 
that  great  moral  questions  in  the  community  will  be  set- 
tled as  they  should,  that  great  wrongs  will  be  righted, 
that  great  needs  will  be  supplied.  And  each  member  of 
the  church  is  to  make  his  contribution  to  this  vital,  ener- 
gizing force.  Some  one  has  said  membership  in  the 
Church  of  Christ  should  be  a  certificate  of  Godly  char- 
acter, a  certificate  that  will  pass  at  its  face  value  among 


140  Centennial  Cele&cation  of  ttit 

the  sons  of  men.  Alas,  how  often  it  has  no  value.  Be 
sure  of  this :  If  it  means  little  to  you,  it  will  mean  little 
to  others.  It  will  count  for  as  much  as  it  costs,  no  more. 
If  it  stands  for  sacrifice  and  devotion  to  you,  it  will  stand 
for  life  and  blessing  to  the  world. 

John  Fisk,  the  historian,  tells  us  that  in  the  continental 
congress,  after  the  members  had  signed  the  new  constitu- 
tion, a  silence  like  death  filled  the  room.  Now  that  the 
stupendous  work  was  finished,  these  men,  who  for  months 
had  given  to  it  their  minds  and  their  hearts,  were  over- 
whelmed with  its  meaning.  The  face  of  Washington 
was  buried  in  his  hands,  he  seemed  to  be  engaged  in 
prayer.  On  the  back  of  his  chair  was  emblazoned  a  half- 
sun  brilliant  with  gilded  rays.  Benjamin  Franklin  arose 
to  his  feet,  and  pointing  to  the  emblem  said,  with  deep 
emotion :  ''During  these  weeks  I  have  looked  at  yonder 
sun  and  wondered  whether  it  was  rising  or  setting.  Now 
I  know  it  is  a  rising  sun."     *     *     * 

God  expects  this  church  to  be  an  irresistible  soul-win- 
ning agency.  Let  us  not  be  unmindful  of  the  passion  for 
souls  that  has  flamed  in  many  a  heart  in  this  Zion,  let 
us  not  forget  the  money  that  has  been  turned  into  con- 
secrated manhood  and  womanhood  and  enlisted  in  the 
work  of  redemption.  Let  us  not  overlook  the  persistent 
zeal  that  is  laboring  to-day  for  the  coming  of  the  King- 
dom.    *     *     * 

Years  ago  a  poor  English  artist  sat  one  day  before  his 
canvas.  He  was  painting  the  picture  of  a  lost  woman. 
He  became  deeply  absorbed  in  the  tragedy  as  it  grew 
upon  the  canvas.  It  was  a  pathetic  scene ;  a  bleak  winter 
night,  darkness  and  tempest  only  broken  by  a  flickering 
light  here  and  there.  A  woman  thinly  clad  with  a  babe 
pressed  against  her  breast  was  wandering  through  the 
streets.  Every  door  was  closed  against  her.  As  he 
went  on  to  portray  the  agony  of  that  wretched  soul,  he 
could  no  longer  control  his  feelings.  Throwing  down 
his  pencils,  he  cried :     "If  souls  are  lost,  how  can  I  be 


jFmi)  auenue  pre^ljpterian  Cf)utcl)  141 

content  with  painting  pictures  of  their  distress?  My 
business  is  to  save  them."  From  that  hour  this  became 
his  passion.  He  went  to  Oxford,  then  down  into  the 
slums,  then  on  into  the  heart  of  Africa.  We  know  him 
to-day  as  Bishop  Tucker,  one  of  the  noblest  saints  of  his 
century.     *     *     * 

We  are  overwhelmed  at  the  thought  of  the  possibilities 
in  this  work  if  each  member  of  the  church  were  dedicated 
to  the  task. 

Once  more,  God  is  asking  us  to  hasten  the  coming  re- 
vival. It  is  coming,  for  thus  is  it  written,  "I  will  pour 
out  my  spirit  upon  all  flesh,"  and  God's  word  cannot  fail. 
We  have  seen  a  moving  at  the  tops  of  the  mulberry  trees. 
Over  against  the  horizon  is  a  cloud  about  the  size  of  a 
man's  hand.  O  for  a  faith  that  will  make  these  movings 
a  tempest  of  grace.  O  for  a  voice  of  prayer  that  will 
bring  the  little  cloud  closer  until  it  fills  the  sky,  and  pours 
its  floods  of  blessing  upon  us.  This  is  the  day  of  our 
opportunity.  We  may  help  to  bring  in  the  morning  of 
power.  God  is  offering  Himself  to  His  People.  We 
may  have  Him  in  the  fullness  of  His  might  if  we  will. 
We  can  afford  to  lose  sight  of  all  else  in  our  agony  for 
a  deep  and  widespread  revival.  We  can  afford  to  plow 
and  harrow  and  sow  in  tears ;  we  can  afford  to  plead  and 
toil  by  day  and  by  night.  It  is  our  supreme  need.  Every 
other  need  is  swallowed  up  in  this.  We  need  leaders. 
We  need  money.  We  need  pure  doctrine,  and  pure  devo- 
tion. We  need  a  power  that  will  keep  the  wheels  of 
activity  in  motion.  We  need  people  to  fill  the  vacant 
places  within  the  walls  of  the  sanctuary;  but  the  need 
of  needs,  the  blessing  that  will  wipe  out  our  lesser  needs, 
is  a  deep  and  far-reaching  experience  of  the  quickening 
power  of  God.  This  will  bring  to  the  front  leaders  with 
tongues  of  fire  and  nerves  of  steel.  This  will  give  us  a 
mastery  over  the  problems  we  face.  This  will  blot  out 
theological  controversies.  This  will  loosen  the  purse- 
strings  of  the  redeemed  until  the  treasuries  of  the  church 


142  Centennial  Celebration  of  tj)e 

overflow,   and   multitudes   will  come   pressing   into   the 
Kingdom  like  doves  to  their  windows.     *     *     * 

As  we  take  our  places  about  The  Holy  Table  for  this 
anniversary  communion,  a  century  of  blessing  behind  us, 
untold  possibilities  before  us,  let  us  consecrate  our  all  to 
the  sublime  task  of  bringing  in  the  Day  of  His  Kingdom, 


MORNING   SERVICE,  DECEMBER   20,    11   A.   M. 

Organ  Prelude — First  Sonata  Mendelssohn 

Doxology 

Invocation 

Anthem — "Except  the  Lord  Build  the  House"      Faning 

First  Scripture  Lesson,  Psalm  XLVIII 

Hymn  138 

Second  Scripture  Lesson,  Matthew  V:  1-20 

Prayer 

Hymn  418 

Offering  for  Chapels  and  Schools 

Anthem — "Round  Jerusalem  stand  the  Mountains" 

HiLLER 

Anniversary  Sermon  by  the  Pastor 

Dr.  Stevenson  preached  from  the  text: 

"Holding  forth  the  word  of  life."— Phil.  II :  16. 

The  first  Protestant  missionary  society  was  the  "Cor- 
poration for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel  in  New  Eng- 
land." It  was  organized  by  Oliver  Cromwell  and  the 
Long  Parliament,  and  in  1661  it  adopted  a  very  interest- 
ing seal.  This  seal  represents  a  North  American  Indian 
holding  in  his  left  hand  a  large  closed  Bible  to  which  he 
is  pointing  with  his  right  hand,  and  above  his  head  are 
written  the  words,  "Come  over  and  help  us."  To  such 
an  appeal  the  church  is  everywhere  and  always  to  respond. 
An  appropriate  seal  for  the  true  Christian  church  would 
be  an  angel  of  light  holding  in  his  hand  the  word  of  life 
and  offering  it  to  the  generations  of  mankind  who  furnish 
the  dark  background,  and  overhead  could  be  written  the 
words,   "Freely   ye   have    received,    freely   give."      The 


JTiftI)  atienue  pteslipterian  Cfjutc!)  143 

church  is  not  merely  a  sacred  institution  with  creed,  gov- 
ernment,  ordinances  and  forms  of  worship.  It  is  a  body, 
a  Hving  organism,  holy  in  character,  brought  into  being, 
nourished  and  controlled  by  the  truth  of  God  and  kept 
strong  and  reproduced  by  missionary  endeavor.  This 
was  the  Apostolic  conception  of  the  church.  Every  or- 
ganization of  believers  was  expected  to  bear  witness  to 
the  truth  and  to  propagate  it.  Our  own  church  has  been, 
we  believe,  true  to  this  conception,  and  may  be  described 
as  a  witness-hearing  church,  and  on  this  account  entitled 
to  a  place  along  with  all  the  others  throughout  the  world 
who  hold  forth  the  word  of  life. 

I.  The  idea  of  a  living  church  is  herein  embodied.  It 
is  not  a  soulless  corporation,  but  a  body  with  faculties 
and  powers,  able  to  receive  and  assimilate  truth  and  com- 
municate it  to  others.  The  church  at  Philippi  had  a  per- 
sonal history,  a  birth,  a  growth,  a  self-conscious  existence 
and  a  life-giving  influence.  This  has  been  the  experience 
of  our  church  during  the  past  century. 

The  living  word  called  into  existence  the  Fifth  Avenue 
Church  just  one  hundred  years  ago.  At  that  time  there 
were  scarcely  ninety  thousand  people  all  told  in  this  city. 
There  were  no  steamboats  nor  steam  ferries,  and  the  only 
means  of  transportation  was  on  horseback  or  by  stage 
coach.  The  mails  were  slowly  carried  from  place  to 
place  at  frequent  intervals,  and  the  postage  varied  ac- 
cording to  the  distance,  twenty-five  cents  for  more  than 
four  hundred  miles.  There  were  two  or  three  daily 
papers  in  the  city,  a  larger  number  of  weeklies,  but  no  re- 
ligious journals  at  all.  Though  the  Presbyterian  Church 
had  been  in  existence  in  this  country  for  more  than  one 
hundred  and  fifty  years,  there  were  at  that  time  about 
three  hundred  ministers  in  the  whole  church  and  21,270 
communicants.  There  were  but  four  Presbyterian 
churches  in  the  city,  though  there  were  a  goodly  number 
in  the  vicinity,  constituting  a  Presbytery.  The  total 
benevolent  gifts  of  all  these  churches  in  the  Presbytery 


144  Centennial  Celebration  of  tfje 

for  that  year  amounted  to  $1,392.  When  our  church  was 
organized  in  1808,  there  were  twenty-six  members. 
Zechariah  Lewis  and  WilHam  Qeveland  were  the  two 
ruHng  elders,  and  George  Fitch  was  named  the  first  dea- 
con. The  Rev.  John  B.  Romeyn,  D.  D.,  the  son  of  a 
Dutch  Reformed  minister,  and  whose  first  parishes  had 
been  in  the  Dutch  Church,  was  the  first  pastor,  and  served 
until  his  death,  that  is  for  seventeen  years.  From  these 
simple  beginnings  our  church  has  grown. 

We  have  had  four  church  homes,  the  first  at  Cedar 
Street,  costing  a  little  more  than  forty  thousand  dollars ; 
the  second  on  Duane  Street ;  the  third  on  the  corner  of 
Nineteenth  Street  and  Fifth  Avenue,  and  the  fourth  in 
the  present  location.  Eight  ministers  have  served  the 
church,  and  the  longest  as  well  as  most  fruitful  pastorate 
was  that  of  Dr.  Hall,  from  1867  to  1898,  or  a  term  of 
thirty-one  years.  The  church  has  had  sixty-eight  ruling 
elders  and  forty-three  deacons ;  and,  while  I  do  not  know 
the  exact  number  of  trustees,  there  appear  on  the  list  the 
names  of  some  of  the  most  prominent  and  influential 
business  men  of  the  city.  There  have  been  enrolled  in 
the  church  approximately  ten  thousand  members,  with  a 
present  total  membership  to-day,  including  those  in  the 
chapels,  of  over  two  thousand. 

But  these  cold  statistics  give  us  little  idea  of  the  amount 
of  life  that  has  been  poured  into  the  church,  and  has  is- 
sued from  it.  The  variety  of  life  that  has  been  repre- 
sented is  rather  surprising.  Its  ministers  have  come  not 
only  from  across  the  sea,  but  from  the  North  and  South, 
from  the  East  and  West.  Originally,  its  membership  was 
drawn  largely  from  New  England,  and  for  a  while  it  was 
called  the  Federal  Church.  But  two  of  her  pastors  were 
of  Southern  birth,  and  during  the  war  she  was  accused 
of  having  some  sympathy  with  secession.  While  the 
Scotch  and  Scotch-Irish  elements  have  been  strong  in 
her  life,  Dutch,  Swiss,  German  and  French  names  appear 
on  the  roll,  where  can  also  be  found  the  names  of  Japa- 


Jfifti)  auenue  ptesbpteriatt  Cl)urcf)         145 

nese  and  Chinese,  though  the  predominating  influences 
have  been  American.  It  has  not  been  the  church  of  any- 
one class  of  society,  but  has  aimed  to  be  a  fold  concerning 
which  it  may  be  said,  "The  rich  and  the  poor  meet  to- 
gether, the  Lord  is  the  maker  of  them  all."  There  has 
been  a  continuity  of  life  down  through  three  generations. 
The  son  of  one  of  the  charter  members  and  first  deacons, 
William  Hall,  is  still  living,  Mr.  H.  M.  Hall  of  Pitts- 
burg, Pennsylvania.  Most  of  the  original  families  have 
died  out  or  have  moved  away,  but  there  are  still  in  the 
church  the  grandchildren  of  one  of  the  charter  members, 
Hugh  Auchincloss. 

The  church  has  passed  through  many  vicissitudes.  It 
has  witnessed  no  less  than  four  great  national  wars.  It 
has  seen  controversy,  disruption  and  reunion  in  the  Pres- 
byterian Church,  and  at  times  has  been  depleted  in  num- 
bers and  strength  by  the  formation  of  new  churches ;  as, 
for  example,  when  the  University  Place  Church  was 
founded  by  a  colony  of  nearly  two  hundred  members 
from  the  Duane  Street  Church.  And  yet,  in  the  main, 
her  course  has  been  one  of  almost  uninterrupted  progress. 
There  has  been  all  along  steady  and  substantial  growth, 
the  sure  evidence  of  healthful  and  vigorous  life.  Our 
church  has  surely  been  a  living  witness. 

II.  The  Apostle  expected  the  Philippian  church  to  be 
Biblical,  "holding  forth  the  word  of  life." 

We  belong  to  a  great  body  of  Christians  called  evan- 
gelical because  of  their  belief  in  those  fundamental  truths 
of  redemption  which  constitute  a  living  evangel.  This 
gospel  of  Christ,  which  presents  him  as  a  divine,  atoning 
Saviour  and  a  risen,  living  Lord,  saves  men  from  sin, 
builds  them  up  in  character,  inspires  them  to  a  Christlike 
life,  and  gives  promise  of  a  noble,  eternal  destiny.  The 
church  which  holds  this  word  of  life  is  sometimes  called 
evangelistic,  by  reason  of  her  endeavors  to  bring  people 
under  the  power  of  this  gospel,  and  enlist  them  in  Chris- 
tian discipleship.    It  is  not  an  evangel  of  abstract  truth, 


146  Centennial  Celebration  of  tlje 

of  antequated  principles  and  unpractical  theories,  but  a 
word  of  life  that  brings  life  and  has  to  do  with  the  rela- 
tions and  activities  of  every-day  life.  After  the  lamented 
death  of  your  beloved  pastor,  Dr.  Purves,  seven  years 
ago,  a  memorial  volume  of  his  sermons  was  published, 
entitled  "Faith  and  Life."  In  those  discourses,  so  full 
of  profound  thought,  practical  truth  and  spiritual  fervor, 
the  gospel  is  proclaimed  as  he  had  verified  it  in  his  own 
experiences  and  as  it  fitted  the  needs  of  common  life. 
Such  preaching  was  characteristic  of  all  who  preceded 
him.  There  have  come  into  my  possession  the  two  vol- 
umes of  sermons  published  by  Dr.  Romeyn  in  1816.  In 
reading  the  preface,  I  was  interested  in  learning  that  he 
selected  these  discourses  to  afford  a  specimen  of  the  man- 
ner in  which  Calvinistic  principles  can  be  applied  to  the 
illustration  and  enforcement  of  the  duties  belonging  to  the 
various  relations  of  life.  As  you  peruse  those  discourses 
and  see  their  application  to  the  life  of  the  individual,  of 
the  church,  of  the  community  and  of  the  nation,  you  are 
convinced  that  the  gospel  was  to  him  a  real  and  practical 
thing.  And  from  the  beginning,  this  vital  word  entered 
into  the  very  life  of  the  church  and  by  the  power  of  the 
Spirit  was  the  one  strong  pervasive  influence  of  growth, 
efficiency  and  usefulness.  This  gospel  and  the  sacred 
Scriptures  containing  it  have  always  been  dearly  loved 
by  our  people,  as  the  very  food  of  the  soul. 

Moreover,  the  Bible  has  been  the  only  text  book  which 
our  church  has  used  down  through  her  history.  Every 
preacher  and  teacher  of  our  church  would  stand  with 
Principal  Forsyth  on  the  ground  he  has  taken:  "The 
Bible  is  the  one  Enchiridion  of  the  preacher  still,  the 
one  manual  of  eternal  life,  the  one  page  that  glows  as 
all  life  grows  dark,  and  the  one  book  whose  wealth  re- 
bukes us  more  the  older  we  grow  because  we  knew  and 
loved  it  so  late."  I  only  wish  that  there  were  time  to  in- 
dicate the  place  which  the  Bible  has  held  in  this  pulpit,  in 
our  Bible  School,  and  in  the  homes  of  our  people.    And 


jFiftf)  auenue  preg&pterian  Cf)urcl)  147: 

our  deep  regret  is  that  it  has  not  been  an  even  stronger 
factor  in  our  life  and  work.  It  is  interesting  to  note,  in 
passing,  that  soon  after  our  church  came  into  existence, 
the  need  of  a  training  school  for  ministers  of  the  word 
of  life  was  felt,  and  this  church  took  the  leading  part  in 
the  inauguration  of  that  enterprise.  Dr.  Romeyn  was 
chairman  of  the  Assembly's  Committee  to  prepare  a  plan 
for  a  theological  seminary,  and,  as  a  result,  Princeton 
Seminary  was  founded.  And  not  only  did  our  church 
contribute  generously  to  the  new  institution,  but  our  ladies 
organized  themselves  into  a  Dorcas  Society,  with  the  pur- 
pose of  aiding  worthy  students  who  were  preparing  for 
the  ministry  of  the  Word.  More  than  this,  when  the 
New  York  Bible  Society  was  organized  in  1809,  the 
pastor  of  this  church  was  its  first  secretary,  and  three  of 
its  elders  were  managers.  This  same  pastor.  Dr.  Romeyn, 
took  an  active  part  in  the  organization  of  the  American 
Bible  Society  in  1816,  and  was  its  first  secretary  for  do- 
mestic correspondence.  In  these  agencies  our  church  has 
always  taken  an  active  and  generous  interest.  Holding 
the  Word  of  Life  firmly,  it  has  been  our  business  to  hold 
it  forth  to  others,  that  its  light  may  everywhere  shine  in 
all  divine  splendor. 

III.  The  missionary  apostle  assumed  that  a  living 
church  to  whom  has  been  committed  the  priceless  heritage 
of  the  truth  would  be  missionary  in  her  character  and 
purpose. 

Although  the  territorial  expansion  of  our  country  dur- 
ing the  past  one  hundred  years  has  been  wonderful,  even 
more  resistless,  significant  and  inspiring  has  been  the 
steady  expansion  of  the  missionary  enterprise  at  home 
and  abroad.  In  1808  there  was  very  little  Home  Mission 
work  being  done,  and  there  was  no  agency  this  side  of 
England  for  foreign  work.  There  was  need  of  pioneers 
to  blaze  the  way  and  turn  the  forces  of  the  church  in 
the  right  direction.  Such  a  pioneer  was  to  be  found  in 
Dr.  Romeyn.    He  was  eminent  as  a  preacher,  beloved  as 


148  Centennial  Celefitation  of  ti)e 

a  pastor,  but  in  addition,  a  man  of  affairs,  who  interested 
himself  in  the  great  projects  of  the  kingdom  and  proved 
himself  to  be  a  statesmanlike  Christian  leader.  In  almost 
every  religious  enterprise  inaugurated  in  his  time,  he  took 
some  part,  and  he  gathered  about  him  as  officers  in  the 
church  broad-minded  laymen  who  caught  the  vision  of  a 
world-wide  mission.  Hence,  in  the  beginnings  of  the 
word  of  both  the  Home  and  Foreign  Boards,  appear  con- 
spicuously the  names  of  Dr.  Romeyn  and  Elders  Zecha- 
riah  Lewis,  Divie  Bethune,  and  Hugh  Auchincloss.  A 
high  missionary  standard  was  thus  set  before  our  church 
was  ten  years  old,  and  ever  since  then  there  has  never 
been  a  time  when  our  church  has  not  been  represented  on 
the  boards  of  these  and  kindred  agencies  by  prominent 
laymen  and  by  every  pastor  with  the  exception  of  the 
Rev.  Cyrus  Mason. 

There  has  been  held  before  us  constantly  a  high  stand- 
ard, both  as  to  the  missionary  character  of  the  church  and 
the  actual  service  which  may  be  rendered.  Your  atten- 
tion will  doubtless  be  called  to-morrow  evening  to  the 
classic  definition  of  Dr.  James  W.  Alexander,  when,  in 
1847,  h^  declared :  "The  Presbyterian  Church  is  a  mis- 
sionary society,  the  object  of  which  is  to  aid  in  the  con- 
version of  the  world,  and  every  member  of  the  church  is 
a  member  for  life  of  said  society  and  bound  to  do  all 
in  his  power  for  the  accomplishment  of  this  object."  This 
was  the  missionary  ideal  held  before  our  fathers  from 
the  beginning,  and  it  is  somewhat  surprising  to  learn  that 
during  the  ministry  of  Dr.  Potts,  in  1836,  the  Session,  in 
order  to  have  a  more  systematic  plan  for  beneficence,  set 
apart  certain  months  for  particular  causes  (and  there 
were  six  of  them  all  told),  and  then  took  this  action: 
"The  pastor,  on  the  first  Sabbath  of  each  month  desig- 
nated and  on  such  other  occasions  during  the  same  month 
as  may  be  convenient  to  himself,  shall  preach  upon  the 
general  subject;  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Clerk  of 
Session  to  notify  the  agents  of  the  several  associations  to 


jFiftI)  atienue  Pte0&pterian  Cfjurci)         149 

whom  it  may  appertain,  that  they  solicit  the  subscriptions 
of  the  congregation  during  their  respective  months." 
Such  action  would  be  regarded  as  rather  advanced  and 
idealistic  for  our  time.  Few  churches  to-day  would  sub- 
mit to  a  sermon  on  some  religious  benevolence  once  a 
month  if  not  oftener  and  to  having  for  each  one  a  sub- 
scription list  passed  instead  of  a  collection  plate.  But  it 
was  by  that  effective  means  our  predecessors  endeavored 
to  hold  forth  the  Word  of  Life,  and  because  of  this  burn- 
ing missionary  spirit  manifest  in  pastor,  officers  and  peo- 
ple from  the  beginning,  our  church  has  earned  a  well-de- 
served renown  for  her  generous  support  of  missionary 
agencies.  By  making  her  light  shine  afar,  its  lustre  has 
not  been  dimmed  at  home.  When  the  rapid  growth  of  the 
city  and  the  congestion  of  population  demanded  mission 
work  near  at  hand,  it  was  immediately  taken  up,  and  it 
has  ever  since  been  carried  on  with  increasing  interest, 
devotion  and  self-sacrifice,  so  that  to-day  we  can  point  to 
our  chapels  and  schools  as  being  the  most  fruitful  depart- 
ments of  our  work. 

The  conclusion  of  the  whole  matter  is  that  our  beloved 
church  for  one  hundred  years  has  occupied  a  position  of 
strategic  importance,  the  center  of  the  growing  life  of  a 
metropolitan  city.  All  the  rich  and  varied  life  repre- 
sented in  her  has  been  used  to  fulfill  the  function  of  a 
true  Christian  church  that  is  to  receive  and  assimilate 
the  truth  of  the  gospel  and  then  hold  it  forth  as  the  one 
true  light  that  all  may  discover  the  way  of  life.  A  rich 
heritage  has  been  bequeathed  to  us,  not  only  in  the  same 
word  of  life  committed  to  our  trust  and  for  which  the 
world  is  appealing,  not  only  in  a  strong  body  of  believers 
that  far  outnumbers  the  little  band  of  a  hundred  years 
ago,  but  in  the  equipment  and  position  that  has  been  left 
us.  Here  we  have  a  beautiful  and  commodious  church 
home  without  any  encumbrance  of  debt  or  mortgage,  with 
well-furnished  buildings  in  the  city  for  our  mission  work. 
No  one  will  question  the  leading  place  of  influence  which 


I50  Centennial  Celeliration  of  tlje 

the  city  is  taking  and  will  long  continue  to  take  in  the 
affairs  of  the  world  and  of  the  divine  kingdom.  And 
God  has  placed  us  in  the  very  heart  of  the  city,  near  the 
exact  geographic  center  of  Manhattan ;  and  more  than 
this,  He  has  given  this  church  a  position  of  influence,  a 
high  place  from  which  she  may  accomplish  wonders  for 
the  world's  redemption.  And  all  this  is  ours  in  a  sense. 
It  is  God's,  for  he  only  doeth  wondrous  things.  It  is 
theirs,  our  fathers',  for  it  represents  their  toil,  their  devo- 
tion, their  prayers,  and  their  tears.  But  it  is  ours  to 
squander  and  lose,  or  to  hold  securely  and  carry  on  to  a 
yet  more  glorious  consummation.  We  may  by  indiffer- 
ence and  ingratitude,  by  ease  and  neglect,  permit  to  be 
written  over  the  portals  of  our  church,  "Ichabod,  her 
glory  is  departed,"  or  we  may,  by  living  trust  in  God,  by 
prayer,  by  wise  determination,  by  self-sacrificing  endeav- 
or, make  our  inheritance  to  be  but  the  foundation  of  a 
temple  of  truth  that  will  outlive  the  centuries  and  remain 
until  every  knee  shall  bow  to  him  and  every  tongue  shall 
confess  him  as  Lord,  and  He  will  come  to  rule  over  all. 
Prayer 

Hymn  (Anniversary) 
Benediction 
Organ  Postlude — Tocatta  in  F  Bach 

COMMUNION   SERVICE,  AT  4  O'CLOCK  P.  M. 

Organ  Prelude — Matthew  Passion  Bach 

Anthem — "How  Lovely  Are  Thy  Dwellings  Fair"  Spohr 
The  words  of  the  anthem  are  a  paraphrase  of 
Psalm  LXXXIV. 

Invocation  Rev.  Albert  L.  Evans 

Hymn  298 
Scripture  Lesson 

Address  Rev.  J.  Ross  Stevenson,  D.  D. 

The  pastor  spoke  in  his  communion  address  from  the 
text: 


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"They  shall  abundantly  utter  the  memory  of  thy 

great  goodness." — Psalm  CXLV:  7. 

There  are  two  thoughts  here  most  appropriate  for  this 
centennial  and  sacramental  day,  and  I  mention  them  not 
so  much  to  explain  or  urge  them  as  to  suggest  a  fruitful 
line  of  meditation  during  this  communion  hour.  They  are 
these :  Past  mercies  and  devout  thanksgiving,  precious 
memories  and  grateful  praise. 

I.  A  flood  of  recollections  pour  in  upon  us  as  we  as- 
semble here  in  our  church  home  to-day. 

This  memorial  feast  and  these  memorial  services  in 
which  we  are  engaged  turn  our  thoughts  back  over  the 
years  that  are  gone  to  faces  that  we  have  loved  long  since 
and  lost  a  while,  to  scenes  that  shine  out  in  all  their 
brightness  and  joy  and  to  associations  that  have  brought 
blessing  and  foregleams  of  heaven's  glory.  Some  can 
recall  the  old  family  pew  and  the  household  that  sat  to- 
gether as  in  heavenly  places,  or  the  class  in  the  Sunday 
School  and  the  honest  efforts  that  were  made  to  under- 
stand the  Book  Divine ;  or  it  may  be  the  day  when  you 
publicly  confessed  Christ  and  for  the  first  time  partook  of 
the  Holy  Supper.  You  can  recall  great  communion  occa- 
sions at  a  time  of  wonderful  spiritual  refreshment  when 
such  a  man  of  God  as  Dr.  James  W.  Alexander,  with  all 
the  sanctity  of  his  consecrated  life,  or  such  a  majestic 
Christian  personality  as  Dr.  John  Hall,  with  all  the  sim- 
plicity, gentleness  and  grandeur  of  his  strong  manhood  in 
Christ,  stood  before  you  and  distributed  the  bread  and 
the  cup;  and  the  Master  himself  drew  nigh.  But  these 
first  affections,  these  deep  experiences  apparelled  in  ce- 
lestial light,  which  seem  to  us  the  fountain  light  of  all 
our  day,  the  master  light  of  all  our  seeing,  are  but  the 
dim  reflections  of  that  one  stupendous  event  at  the  be- 
ginning of  the  Christian  era,  of  which  this  supper  is  to 
be  the  perpetual  reminder.  He  that  spared  not  his  own 
Son,  but  delivered  him  up  for  us  all,  how  shall  he  not 


152  Centennial  Celetitation  of  tht 

with  him  freely  give  us  all  things !  All  things  have  been 
ours  since  we  are  Christ's,  and  Christ  is  God's. 

And  this  carries  us  back  to  the  fountain-head  of  all 
blessing,  the  great  goodness  of  God.  It  is  only  goodness 
that  we  care  to  remember.  Evil,  too,  often  dwells  in 
our  minds,  poisons  our  affections,  and  prevents  well- 
doing, and  we  would  give  anything  to  blot  it  all  out  of 
our  past.  Christ's  blood  alone  can  do  that,  and  as  we 
sit  at  this  feast,  we  may  well  contemplate  the  goodness  of 
God  in  overcoming  evil,  in  setting  right  the  things  that 
have  been  wrong  in  our  career,  in  our  relation  with 
others,  in  our  membership  in  the  church  of  God.  But 
whether  we  recall  the  joy  of  sin  forgiven,  the  place  of 
reconciliation,  the  comfort  that  sorrow  has  made  sweet, 
the  strength  which  trial  has  developed,  or  the  gifts  of 
health  and  home  and  friends  and  delightful  associations, 
profitable  co-operation,  and  an  inspiring  service,  it  is  the 
simple  goodness  of  God  that  we  love  to  think  about  and 
which  brings  us  the  greatest  happiness  and  profit  in  the 
contemplation.  The  bliss  of  heaven  gathers  around  the 
sublime  discovery  that  God  alone  is  worthy  to  receive 
glory  and  honor,  dominion  and  power.  If  there  are  any 
here  to-day  dejected,  discouraged,  "Oh,  taste  and  see  that 
the  Lord  is  good.  Blessed  is  the  man  that  trusteth  in  him." 

II.  There  is  a  flood  of  memories  which  stream  in  upon 
us  when  we  think  of  the  goodness,  the  unmerited  favor  of 
God;  and  the  Psalmist  has  also  in  mind  here  the  flood 
of  praise  which  is  sure  to  issue  forth.  Abundantly  utter 
is  the  same  thing  as  to  pour  out. 

There  are  often  precious  recollections  which  we  keep 
bound  up  within  our  hearts.  Dull  apprehension,  thought- 
less ingratitude,  the  hardening  influences  of  the  world 
which  is  too  much  with  us,  the  selfish  desire  for  greater 
benefits  than  others  can  know  or  have,  these  impressions 
cover  over  the  fountains  of  praise,  make  such  a  thick 
crust  of  formality  and  proud  self-consciousness  that  we 
are  not  as  thankful  as  we  ought  to  be,  nor  as  jubilant  as 


jFiftt)  auenue  prestiptetian  Cljutcf)  153 

God  expects  us  to  be.  But  an  occasion  such  as  this  is 
ordained  of  the  Lord  to  break  the  hardest  cement  of  in- 
difference and  thanklessness,  so  that  praise  may  flow 
forth  in  one  great  stream,  just  as  streams  of  mercy,  never 
ceasing,  call  for  loudest  songs  of  praise. 

He  who  gives  the  maximum  of  blessing  desires  the 
maximum  of  gratitude.  And  I  do  wish  that  on  this  beau- 
tiful anniversary  day,  which  means  so  much  to  the  church, 
to  many  of  our  families,  to  our  own  individual  hearts,  we 
might  simply  forget  ourselves,  at  least  our  lower  selves, 
all  that  would  drag  us  down  and  hold  us  back,  that  we 
may  lose  ourselves  in  the  memory  of  his  great  goodness, 
and  lose  ourselves  in  the  joy  and  praise  of  this  sacra- 
mental Sabbath,  and  then  our  song  will  be : 

"I  yield  my  powers  to  thy  command, 
To  thee  I  consecrate  my  days : 

Perpetual  blessings  from  thy  hand. 
Demand  perpetual  songs  of  praise." 
Reception  of  New  Members 
Hymn  992 

Administration  of  the  Bread  Rev.  Hugh  Pritchard 

Administration  of  the  Cup 

Rev.  Edwin  F.  Hallenbeck,  D.  D. 
Prayer  Rev.  Paul  R.  Abbott 

Hymn  959 
Benediction 
Organ  Postlude 

SUNDAY  EVENING  SERVICE,  AT  8  O'CLOCK. 
Opening  Service  of  Song 
Scripture  Lesson  and  Prayer 

Rev.  Edwin  F.  Hallenbeck,  D.  D. 
Hymn  515 
Address — "Our  Indebtedness  to  Great  Religious 

Movements"  Rev.  J.  Ross  Stevenson,  D.  D. 

The  address  was  based  upon  the  thought  embodied  in 
the  text: 


154  Centennial  Celebration  of  tj)e 

"Others   have   labored,   and  ye   are   entered  into 

their  labor."— John  IV :  38. 

No  man  lives  and  labors  independently.  For  what  he 
is  and  has  and  does,  he  is  indebted  to  the  service  of  other 
people.  A  rude  barbarian,  when  he  has  outgrown  the 
fostering  care  of  parents,  may  subsist  alone  in  his  sav- 
agery, but  it  is  impossible  for  any  one  to  do  this  in  civ- 
ilized society.  When  we  pass  from  simplicity  to  com- 
plexity, life  becomes  more  and  more  involved,  more  and 
more  interdependent  in  its  relations,  and  more  and  more 
co-operative  in  its  service.  This  is  true  of  a  particular 
church.  Though  there  are  churches  which  call  them- 
selves independent,  strictly  speaking,  there  are  no  inde- 
pendent churches.  As  a  true  church,  each  is  part  of  a 
great  religious  movement,  and  it  receives  in  order  to  give. 
Our  own  church  has  reaped  much  where  others  have 
sown.  In  some  enterprises,  we  have  been  pioneers,  and 
great  causes  have  looked  to  us  constantly  for  substantial 
support.  Yet  from  the  beginning,  we  have  freely  re- 
ceived and  have  shared  in  the  blessing  of  great  religious 
movements.  We  do  well  to  remind  ourselves  on  this  an- 
niversary occasion  of  our  indebtedness  to  great  religious 
movements. 

In  the  progress  of  the  kingdom  during  the  past  cen- 
tury, there  have  been  great  spiritual  awakenings,  fol- 
lowed by  the  establishment  of  great  philanthropic  enter- 
prises, these  in  turn  followed  by  organized  endeavors  on 
the  part  of  churches. 

I.  We  owe  much  "every  way"  to  the  great  revivals 
which  affected  the  Christian  life  of  the  nineteenth  century. 

The  revival  of  1800  had  much  to  do  with  the  planting 
and  early  growth  of  our  church.  At  the  close  of  the 
Revolutionary  War,  religion  and  morality  had  fallen  to 
the  lowest  water  mark  of  the  lowest  ebb  tide  ever  reached 
in  our  country.  French  infidelity  was  everywhere  ram- 
pant, and  the  leading  statesmen  were  unbelievers.  In- 
temperance was  so  general  and  the  demand  for  distilled 


jfift!)  atjenue  ptesftptetian  Cfjurcl)         155 

liquor  so  great  that  the  attempt  of  the  Government  to 
levy  a  tax  led  to  the  Whiskey  Insurrection  of  1794.  The 
whole  church  was  in  such  a  deplorable  condition  that  in 
1798  the  General  Assembly  issued  a  pastoral  letter  calling 
upon  the  people  to  observe  a  special  day  of  humiliation, 
fasting  and  prayer,  so  great  was  the  prevailing  impiety 
and  contempt  for  the  laws  and  institutions  of  religion, 
the  abounding  infidelity  and  the  advancing  profligacy  and 
corruption  of  public  morals.  In  answer  to  prayer,  there 
was  a  special  and  very  general  outpouring  of  the  Holy 
Spirit  which  quickened  into  newness  of  life  not  only  the 
churches  of  New  England  and  of  the  East,  but  the 
churches  of  the  South  and  West.  The  results  in  the  in- 
crease of  membership  in  the  churches  and  in  the  quicken- 
ing of  religious  interest  and  activity  were  so  marked  that 
the  General  Assembly  in  1803  declared,  after  scrupulous 
inquiry,  that  nothing  had  ever  occurred  in  this  country  so 
favorable  and  so  gratifying  to  the  friends  of  truth  and 
piety.  It  was  not  a  short-lived  experience.  Wave  after 
wave  of  deep  inflowing  religious  life  continued  to  pour 
over  the  churches  at  frequent  intervals  for  a  whole  gen- 
eration. There  was  a  long  period  of  abundant  life  which 
enlarged  and  strengthened  and  multiplied  the  churches 
and  equipped  them  for  the  stupendous  tasks  of  the  past 
century.  It  was  during  this  period  of  revived  Christian 
life  that  our  church  came  into  existence.  The  natural 
growth  of  the  city  had  much  to  do  with  the  increase  of 
the  churches.  But  it  was  the  religious  interest  of  the 
time  which  made  existing  church  buildings  inadequate  to 
accommodate  the  people  and  necessitated  the  organization 
of  new  congregations.  There  were  in  existence  at  the 
time  the  First  Collegiate  Presbyterian  Church  (including 
the  Wall  Street  Church,  the  Brick  Church  in  Beeckman 
Street,  the  Rutgers  Church  on  Henry  Street)  and  the 
First  Associate  Presbyterian  Church  on  Nassau  Street, 
near  Maiden  Lane ;  and  because  these  were  overcrowded, 
Dr.  Rodgers,  who  was  the  leading  Presbyterian  minister 


156  Centennial  Celebration  of  tbt 

at  that  time,  advocated  the  erection  of  a  new  church  in 
Cedar  Street.  In  all  probability,  a  large  number  of  the 
charter  members  of  our  church  in  1808  felt  the  impulse 
of  that  spiritual  awakening.  Two  years  later,  when  the 
pastor,  Dr.  Romeyn,  was  moderator  of  the  General  As- 
sembly, he  commented  on  the  evidence  of  the  Spirit's 
work  in  the  churches  and  on  the  visible  results  of  a  great 
religious  movement.  For  fifteen  or  twenty  years  after 
the  organization  of  our  church,  there  were,  as  Dr.  Gard- 
ner Spring  testified,  an  uninterrupted  series  of  celestial 
visitations,  and  as  late  as  1828-29  there  was  an  extraor- 
dinary awakening  of  the  New  York  churches,  in  the  bene- 
fits of  which  the  Cedar  Street  Church,  with  Cyrus  Mason 
then  as  pastor,  shared.  During  this  early  period  of  our 
history  there  were  additions  on  confession  of  faith  at 
every  communion  service,  and  the  growth  of  the  church 
was  not  only  constant,  but  rapid.  But  this,  we  must 
remember,  was  in  connection  with  a  great  religious  move- 
ment. We  were  carried  along  by  the  general  advance 
which  the  church  was  everywhere  making. 

The  revival  of  1857  brought  great  fruitfulness  to  our 
church.  This  spiritual  awakening,  like  the  recent  move- 
ment in  Wales,  was  pre-eminently  a  revival  of  prayer. 
The  human  agent,  in  so  far  as  any  human  agent  could 
be  recognized,  who  inaugurated  this  divine  enterprise  was 
Jeremiah  Calvin  Lanphier.  In  July,  1857,  he  became  a 
lay  missionary  of  the  North  Dutch  Reformed  Church. 
It  is  interesting  to  note  that  for  eight  or  nine  years  pre- 
ceding this  he  had  been  a  member  of  our  church  and 
had  come  under  the  spiritual  ministry  of  the  praying 
pastor.  Dr.  James  W.  Alexander.  As  Mr.  Lanphier 
walked  the  streets  in  the  performance  of  his  missionary 
duties,  the  idea  occurred  to  him  that  an  hour  of  prayer 
from  twelve  to  one  o'clock  would  be  beneficial  to  business 
men,  an  hour  in  which  they  might  sing,  pray,  relate  their 
religious  experiences  and  come  and  go  as  their  engage- 
ments or  inclinations  might  dictate.    On  the  23d  day  of 


jFmt)  atienue  pte^tsgterlan  Cijutc!)         157 

September,  1857,  the  lecture  room  of  the  North  Church 
on  Fulton  Street  was  thrown  open  for  this  purpose.  Dur- 
ing- the  first  half  hour  Mr.  Lanphier  prayed  alone — no 
one  came.  But  at  12  :30  the  step  of  a  solitary  individual 
was  heard.  Soon  another  came  in,  and  then  another,  un- 
til six  people  made  up  the  whole  company.  That  was 
the  beginning  of  that  wonderful  series  of  business  men's 
prayer-meetings,  which  increased  with  such  power  and 
blessing  that  no  one  building  adequate  to  accommodate 
the  crowds  could  be  procured,  and  it  became  necessary  to 
arrange  for  such  meetings  all  over  the  city.  The  en- 
thusiasm for  prayer  filled  the  city  and  spread  throughout 
the  country.  Synchronous  with  it  was  a  great  awakening 
in  North  Ireland,  in  which  Dr.  John  Hall  participated 
while  pastor  at  Armagh,  and  which  has  been  chronicled, 
in  Dr.  William  Gibson's  book,  "The  Year  of  Grace  in 
Ulster,"  Numbers  are  often  misleading,  but  it  gives  us 
some  conception  of  the  sweep  of  this  movement  to  be 
told  that  throughout  the  United  States  no  less  than  one 
million  persons  were  turned  to  Christ,  and  that  in  New 
York  alone  as  many  as  ten  thousand  people  united  with 
the  churches.  In  the  year  1858  to  1859,  our  own  church 
received  a  larger  number  of  accessions  than  in  any  pre- 
ceding year.  In  one  communion.  May,  1858,  there  were 
no  less  than  fifty-seven  additions  on  confession  of  faith. 
The  hearts  of  pastor  and  people  were  greatly  rejoiced, 
and  Dr.  Alexander's  interest  in  the  movement  and  con- 
viction of  its  wide-reaching  value  found  expression  in 
a  wonderfully  suggestive  and  stimulating  book,  "The  Re- 
vival and  Its  Lessons." 

The  records  of  the  chnrch  show  that  the  most  fruitful 
year  in  all  her  history  was  in  1875  and  1876.  During  that 
ecclesiastical  year,  no  less  than  two  hundred  and  seventy- 
one  persons  were  received  into  the  church  on  confession. 
This  was  the  natural  harvest  of  blessed  years  of  toil  in 
Dr.  Hall's  faithful  pastorate.  It  was  also  coincident  with 
the  removal  of  the  church  up-town  and  the  dedication 


158  Centennial  Celetiration  of  tfte 

of  the  present  edifice.  But  is  it  not  significant  that  at 
that  very  time  Brooklyn  and  New  York  were  profoundly 
stirred  by  the  meetings  conducted  by  Dwight  L.  Moody. 
I  can  remember  as  a  lad  how  my  father,  a  minister,  was 
impressed  and  encouraged  by  the  accounts  of  those  gath- 
erings, the  like  of  which  had  not  been  seen  since  1857. 
This  display  of  God's  power  in  our  city  had  its  natural 
eflfect  upon  our  church  and  its  life,  calling  men  and  wom- 
en to  earnest  thought  and  impelling  the  undecided  to  an 
open  confession. 

It  is  conceivable  that  our  church  might  have  lived  and 
thrived  independently  of  these  extensive  spiritual  move- 
ments, but  it  accords  better  with  God's  method  of  work- 
ing to  believe  that  our  church  has  been  receptive  to  in- 
fluences affecting  the  whole  kingdom,  and  has  stood  ready 
to  profit  by  the  example  and  labor  of  others.  I  can  only 
mention  one  other  fact  which  clearly  indicates  how  much 
we  have  been  helped  from  the  outside.  A  large  propor- 
tion of  the  ten  thousand  members  that  have  been  enrolled, 
surely  one-half,  have  been  received  by  letter  from  sister 
churches. 

II.  There  are  great  philanthropic  enterprises  which 
have  exerted  a  strong  reflex  influence  upon  the  life  and 
work  of  our  beloved  church.  It  would  be  interesting  to 
show,  if  the  time  permitted,  how  spiritual  awakenings 
have  been  followed  by  earnest  endeavors  to  give  the  gos- 
pel to  every  creature  and  uplift  mankind.  For  example, 
the  great  evangelical  revival  of  the  Eighteenth  Century 
led  directly  to  the  abolition  of  the  slave  trade  in  England, 
the  organization  of  the  Religious  Tract  Society,  the  Brit- 
ish and  Foreign  Bible  Society,  the  London  and  the 
Church  Missionary  Societies.  Just  so  the  revivals  of  the 
past  century,  more  notably  the  one  in  1800  and  the  fol- 
lowing years,  gave  a  decided  impulse  to  missionary  and 
philanthropic  effort. 

When  our  church  had  its  beginnings,  the  population 
was  not  congested  in  the  cities  as  it  is  now,  but  was  dis- 


JFiftlJ  atjenue  presljpterian  C|)Utcl)  159 

tributed  throughout  the  country.  There  were  no  large 
cities,  and  hence  many  of  the  problems  so  familiar  to  us 
were  not  known  by  the  fathers.  The  tasks  of  the  church, 
outside  its  own  parish,  were  related  to  the  two  great  en- 
terprises of  Domestic  and  Foreign  Missions.  These  great 
fields  of  service  were  brought  to  the  attention  of  the 
church  by  the  great  spiritual  awakenings  of  which  I  have 
spoken.  Both  of  these  agencies  of  the  church  can  be 
traced  back  to  the  revival  of  1800,  and,  connected  with 
them,  other  important  forms  of  service  were  brought  into 
existence;  the  means  of  educating  ministers,  culminating 
in  the  establishment  of  Princeton  Theological  Seminary; 
the  circulation  of  the  Scriptures  and  the  formation  of 
the  New  York  Bible  Society  and  the  American  Bible  So- 
ciety; the  distribution  of  good  literature,  and  the  organi- 
zation of  the  American  Tract  Society.  It  was  also  found 
necessary  to  establish  schools  and  missions  in  our  own 
city,  as  well  as  elsewhere,  and  the  American  Sunday 
School  Union  and  the  New  York  City  Mission  and  Tract 
Society  were  the  result.  These  religious  activities  were 
not  only  the  result  of  apparent  needs,  but  of  a  quickened 
religious  consciousness  which  it  requires  a  real  spiritual 
awakening  to  bestow. 

We  have  already  learned  by  this  morning's  study  what 
the  vital  relation  of  our  church  to  all  these  organizations 
or  societies  has  been.  Among  their  founders,  directors, 
trustees  and  chief  benefactors  have  been  placed  the  pas- 
tors and  influential  laymen  of  our  church.  Our  people 
have  contributed  constantly  and  generously  and  have  been 
a  substantial  help.  This  has  meant  much  to  these  agen- 
cies, as  will  be  duly  pointed  out,  but  let  us  not  overlook 
nor  forget  what  it  has  meant  to  us.  We  honor  the  men 
whose  names  are  conspicuous  in  the  life  and  work  of  the 
church,  and  let  us  also  give  praise  for  the  occasions  which 
challenged  them,  called  out  the  best  that  was  in  them  and 
developed  their  gifts  to  the  highest  point  of  usefulness. 
By  these  agencies  we  have  been  preserved  from  narrow- 


i6o  Centennial  Celebration  of  tfte 

ness,  provincialism,  selfishness  and  death.  We  have  as  a 
church  had  the  means  for  broadening  the  vision,  enlarging 
the  sympathy,  inspiring  the  best  service  and  promoting 
a  life  not  self-contained,  but  overflowing  in  blessing  and 
distributing  itself  throughout  the  world. 

III.  There  have  been  also  great  organized  endeavors 
from  which  our  church  has  derived  profit.  Spiritual 
awakenings  prompting  benevolent  enterprises  necessitated 
systematic  effort  so  that  the  forces  of  the  church  might 
be  most  advantageously  utilized.  After  great  missionary 
societies  had  been  organized,  it  was  found  desirable  to 
plant  societies  in  the  individual  churches.  In  this  direc- 
tion there  have  been  four  great  movements,  the  enlist- 
ment of  young  men,  the  enlistment  of  women,  the  enlist- 
ment of  young  people,  and  the  enlistment  of  men. 

It  is  worthy  of  note  that  the  Young  Men's  Social  and 
Benevolent  Society  of  our  church,  which  for  years  did 
a  splendid  service  by  way  of  enlisting  and  training  young 
men,  was  organized  in  1842,  two  years  before  George 
Williams  founded  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Associa- 
tion in  England,  and  nine  years  before  the  Association 
idea  was  introduced  into  America.  But  unquestionably 
this  Association  movement  which  swept  over  the  country 
strengthened  the  work  in  our  own  church,  magnified  the 
importance  of  this  particular  enterprise,  and  gave  our  men 
such  training  as  naturally  fitted  them  for  positions  of 
leadership  in  the  great  undertaking  of  "work  for  young 
men  by  young  men." 

So  also  have  the  women  of  our  church  profited  by  the 
movement  in  the  whole  church.  As  early  as  1810  a 
Dorcas  Society  was  organized  in  our  church  to  aid  the 
students  of  Princeton  Seminary.  Prior  to  this  there  had 
been  several  "Cent  a  Week"  and  other  similar  organiza- 
tions formed  in  New  England.  But  so  far  as  we  have 
any  record,  ours  was  the  first  women's  society  west  of 
Massachusetts.  This  developed  into  the  Princeton  Sem- 
inary   Association    of    the    Fifth    Avenue    Presbyterian 


jFiftI)  atjenue  pre$6ptenan  Cj)utc|)         i6i 

Church.  In  the  pastorate  of  Dr.  Alexander  there  was  a 
Ladies'  Foreign  Evangelical  Society,  which  co-operated 
with  the  young  men  in  the  support  of  an  evangelist  in 
France.  But  it  was  not  until  after  the  organization  of 
the  Woman's  Home  and  Foreign  Missionary  Boards  and 
the  establishment  of  auxiliary  societies  in  the  various 
churches  that  the  Auxiliary  Society  and  Young  Women's 
Missionary  Society  of  our  church  were  formed. 

The  Young  People's  Association  took  up  the  work  of 
the  Young  Men's  Social  and  Benevolent  Society,  adapted 
it  to  changing  conditions,  and,  apart  from  affiliation  with 
any  general  movement,  has  done  a  splendid  and  perma- 
nent work.  And  yet  the  atmosphere  created  by  the 
sychronous  interest  of  young  people  throughout  the  whole 
church  has  no  doubt  proved  a  greater  inspiration  to  us 
than  we  can  realize.  The  movement  which  characterizes 
the  present-day  life  of  the  churches  is  that  which  has  to 
do  with  the  men,  and  which  in  our  own  denomination  has 
crystallized  into  the  Presbyterian  Brotherhood.  From 
this  in  turn  we  have  derived  benefit  in  the  vision  given 
as  to  the  possibilities  of  Bible  study,  of  individual  work 
and  of  missionary  interest  and  support. 

These  influences  may  seem  to  some  far-fetched  and  a 
very  small  value  may  be  placed  upon  them,  just  as  we 
often  fail  to  appreciate  the  influences  which  have  made 
us  personally  what  we  are.  But  no  man  liveth  unto  him- 
self, or  by  himself.  The  Christian  must  work  out  his 
own  salvation,  but  he  is  not  asked  to  do  it  in  solitary 
confinement.  He  may  lead  some  kind  of  a  religious  life 
outside  the  church  and  isolated  from  his  fellow  Chris- 
tians, but  all  experience  goes  to  show  that  he  will  grow 
faster,  become  stronger  and  prove  more  useful  when  he 
alligns  himself  with  the  whole  company  of  believers.  God 
setteth  the  solitary  in  families.  The  Apostolic  method  of 
establishing  the  kingdom  was  not  merely  to  organize 
local  churches,  but  to  keep  them  in  touch  with  each  other 
that  they  might  be  mutually  helpful.     The  society,  the 


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church  which  grows  most  is  the  one  most  susceptible  to 
the  best  influences  from  every  quarter.  Even  in  the  posi- 
tion of  leadership,  it  gets  suggestion  and  inspiration  from 
the  rank  and  file.  This  is  the  method  by  which  the  Spirit 
of  God  has  been  working  down  through  the  centuries, 
and,  while  we  thank  him  for  the  part  he  has  given  us  in 
great  religious  movements,  we  will  not  forget  to  thank 
him  for  the  place  he  has  given  us  in  them  where  we 
might  receive  the  most,  so  as  to  give  the  best. 

Here  we  are  at  the  close  of  a  century  of  glorious  his- 
tory, and  all  the  best  influences  of  a  hundred  years  have 
not  only  been  received,  they  have  been  assimilated,  puri- 
fied, energized,  and  handed  down  to  us,  that  we  might 
transmit  them  to  others.  Others  have  labored,  and  we 
are  entered  into  their  labor.  And  they  look  down  upon 
us  to  see  if  by  us  their  tasks  may  be  carried  forward  to 
completion,  since  they  without  us  are  not  made  perfect, 
"Therefore,  let  us  also,  seeing  we  are  compassed  about 
with  so  great  a  cloud  of  witnesses,  lay  aside  every  weight 
and  the  sin  which  doth  so  easily  beset  us,  and  let  us  run 
with  patience  the  race  that  is  set  before  us,  looking  unto 
Jesus,  the  author  and  perfecter  of  our  faith." 
Prayer 
Hymn  554 
Benediction. 


AT  THE  MISSIONARY  SERVICE,  held  Monday, 
December  21,   8  P.   M.,   the   following  addresses  were 
delivered. 
"Our  Church  and  City  Missions" 

Rev.  a.  F.  Schauffler,  D.  D. 

The  local  church  has  a  work  of  its  own  within  its  walls. 
If  there,  however,  its  work  ceases,  sooner  or  later  that 
church  dies.  The  local  church  must  work  in  wider  and 
ever  widening  circles  to  maintain  its  own  life  and  power. 


JfiftJ)  auenue  presfipterian  Cl)utc[)         163 

The  first  of  these  widening  circles  that  presents  itself 
to  any  urban  church  is  the  city  in  which  the  church  is 
located.  The  second  field,  still  wider,  is  the  land  in  which 
the  city  is  located,  and  the  last  and  widest  field  is  the 
world  in  which  the  land  finds  its  habitation. 

We  are  to  begin  to-night  with  the  smaller  of  these  cir- 
cles, widening  out  to  home  missions  and  broadening  still 
further  to  the  foreign  missionary  work  which  this  church 
has  blessed  and  by  which  this  church  itself  has  been 
blessed. 

One  hundred  years  from  eighteen  hundred  and  eight, 
to  nineteen  hundred  and  eight,  is  a  far  cry.  In  this  hun- 
dred years  many  things  have  happened  within  and  with- 
out the  church,  within  and  without  the  city,  and  the  land 
and  the  world,  revolutions  on  revolutions,  advances  and 
retrograde  movement.  On  the  whole,  advance.  The 
story  of  the  last  hundred  years  is  a  story  unsurpassed 
by  any  hundred  years  in  this  world's  history. 

My  part  of  the  story  of  the  activity  of  this  church  per- 
tains chiefly  to  this  city  of  ours,  and  when  I  say  this  city 
I  mean  pre-eminently  Manhattan  and  the  Bronx,  for  that 
is  the  older  New  York  City,  This  church  has  been  living 
now  for  one  hundred  years,  and  the  society  which  I  rep- 
resent before  you  this  evening  has  been  living  for  eighty 
years,  for  the  New  York  City  Mission  was  founded  in 
1828.  Singularly  enough,  and  happily,  from  that  time 
to  this  never  has  this  church  had  a  pastor — with  one  sin- 
gle exception — which  pastor  was  not  also  a  member  of 
the  Board  of  the  New  York  City  Mission  and  Tract  So- 
ciety. In  1828,  I  find  from  the  record,  from  that  time 
to  1836,  the  Rev,  Dr.  Mason  was  pastor  of  the  church 
and  also  director  of  our  City  Mission  Society,  The  same 
was  true  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  George  Potts,  who  was  pastor 
here  from  1836  to  1844.  He  was  followed  by  Dr.  J.  W. 
Alexander,  in  whose  pastorate  here  there  was  a  short 
interregnum  when  he  attempted  to  withdraw  from  the 
pastorate,  and  then  was  called  back  again.    He  ministered 


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from  1844  to  1859,  and  was  also  one  of  the  directors  of 
our  society.  Then  came  the  Rev.  Dr.  N.  L.  Rice,  from 
1859  to  1869,  and  he  followed  in  the  footsteps  of  his 
predecessors  in  this  one  particular.  Then  began  the  im- 
mortal pastorate  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  John  Hall,  from  1869, 
and  from  that  time  to  the  day  of  being  gathered  to  his 
fathers  and  his  rest  and  his  reward  Dr.  John  Hall  was 
one  of  the  directors  of  our  society.  Then  came  the  one 
short  interregnum,  when,  for  not  quite  two  years.  Dr. 
Purvis  was  pastor  here,  and  he  was  not  a  member  of  our 
board.  He  was  followed  by  your  present  pastor,  whom 
we  rejoice  also  to  number  among  those  who  are  with  us 
in  the  board  of  the  New  York  City  Mission  and  Tract 
Society. 

So  that  you  see,  for  fourscore  years,  with  the  brief  in- 
terruption of  not  quite  two  years,  the  Fifth  Avenue  Pres- 
byterian Church  and  the  New  York  City  Mission  and 
Tract  Society  have  been  fast  friends,  and  as  we  have 
possibly  in  some  ways  helped  the  pastors,  so  they  certain- 
ly in  large  ways  have  helped  the  work  which  we  repre- 
sent. 

When  you  come  to  the  financial  side,  we  can  see  much 
of  the  debt  which  our  society  owes  to  this  church  as  a 
corporate  body,  and  to  the  members  of  this  church  as 
individuals.  Always  during  the  earlier  history  of  the 
society,  before  we  employed  any  paid  agents  and  while 
we  were  practically  a  voluntary  society,  distributing  tracts 
and  holding  neighborhood  prayer-meetings ;  I  say  from 
that  time  down  to  the  present  day  there  has  probably  not 
been  any  year  when  the  financial  hand  of  this  church  has 
not  been  stretched  out  in  sympathy  and  aid  to  the  society 
that  I  represent. 

If  I  should  try  to  gather  up  all  the  statements  with 
regard  to  this  financial  aid  that  has  come  to  us  from 
your  church  and  your  members,  it  would  amount  to  a 
vast  sum,  and  when  I  say  a  vast  sum  I  mean  it  would 
amount  to  hundreds  and  hundreds  of  thousands  of  dol- 


iFiftI)  atjcnue  pres&pterian  Cijurcf)  165 

lars,  for  there  have  been  large  givers,  members  of  this 
congregation  who  have  given  to  us  outside  of  the  regular 
church  offering,  like  Mr.  and  Mrs,  Stuart,  of  sacred  mem- 
ory. There  have  been  those  who  have  left  to  our  society 
bequests  like  one  which  came  to  us  of  over  eighty  thou- 
sand dollars,  from  a  former  member  of  this  church.  We 
have  had  gifts  from  the  living,  and  gifts  from  those  who 
have  passed  away.  Always  large,  always  liberal,  and 
always  exceedingly  regular. 

One  of  the  former  members  of  this  congregation  and 
church  donated  to  our  city  mission  a  complete  church,  he 
paying  every  dollar  for  the  complete  outfit  of  the  church, 
from  the  beginning  to  the  end,  and  then  he  passed  it  over 
to  us,  and  before  he  went  to  his  rest  partially  endowed 
the  same.  Another  former  member  of  this  church  gave 
to  our  society  its  permanent  home  in  the  United  Chari- 
ties Building,  on  the  corner  of  Twenty-second  Street  and 
Fourth  Avenue,  where  comfortably  and  without  expense 
the  society  finds  its  permanent  abiding  place  in  this  great 
city  of  ours. 

So  we  could  go  on  and  illustrate  the  vital  connection 
and  the  most  helpful  connection  between  this  congrega- 
tion and  church  and  the  society,  which  is  doing  work  ex- 
clusively among  the  tenement  house  population  of  our 
city.  There  be  those  who  have  been  members  of  this 
church,  who  have  supported  entirely  by  themselves  cer- 
tain women  missionaries  and  trained  nurses ;  for  our  so- 
ciety was  the  first  that  put  trained  nurses  into  the  homes 
of  the  tenement  house  population.  There  are  those  here 
to-day  who  are  supporting  individual  missionaries,  send- 
ing them  as  proxies,  so  to  speak,  going  where  they  them- 
selves could  not  go,  administering  to  others  in  their  stead 
and  in  the  Saviour's  blessed  name. 

It  would  not  do  for  me  to  sit  down  without  referring 
to  another  form  of  activity  in  which  the  society  has  been 
brought  in  vital  connection  with  the  Fifth  Avenue  Presby- 
terian Church.     Some  four  vears  ago  a  movement  v/as 


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started  in  this  city,  called  the  Evangelistic  Tent  Move- 
ment. The  intent  was  to  send  out  evangelists  in  the 
heated  term,  during  the  summer,  to  preach  in  open  tents 
God's  truth  to  those  who  would  not  and  could  not  go 
inside  of  the  church  walls.  From  the  very  first  of  that 
Evangelistic  Tent  Movement,  with  which  I  have  the  priv- 
ilege of  being  associated,  the  Fifth  Avenue  Presbyterian 
Church  has  stood  as  one  of  the  large-hearted  and  loyal 
friends.  Only  one  other  church  in  this  city  can  in  any 
way  match  itself  with  this  Fifth  Avenue  Presbyterian 
Church  in  its  support  of  the  Evangelistic  Tent  Movement, 
and  that  is  the  Brick  Presbyterian  Church,  which  stands 
well  alongside  of  this  one  in  its  large-hearted  giving, 
that  to  those  thousands,  tens  of  thousands — yes,  scores 
of  thousands — who  gather  in  the  open  tents,  the  glad 
news  of  God's  love  in  Christ  may  be  brought. 

Time  would  fail  if  we  were  to  try  to  weave  together 
in  warp  and  woof  the  complete  pattern,  showing  all  the 
activities  of  individual  members  of  this  church  in  this 
great  city  of  ours.  Indeed,  there  is  need  that  there  should 
be  such  activity,  not  on  the  part  of  this  church  only,  but 
on  the  part  of  all  believers  everywhere. 

It  has  been  my  privilege  to  be,  for  thirty-five  years,  a 
worker  in  city  missions  in  New  York,  and  that  is  more 
than  one-third  of  the  life  of  this  church.  I  remember  the 
day  when,  twenty-five  years  ago,  we  said  that  the  great 
East  Side  was  so  crowded  that  it  could  not  be  any  more 
crowded ;  it  had  reached  its  maximum.  We  were  mis- 
taken. The  great  East  Side  had  not,  and  the  great  East 
Side  has  not,  reached  its  maximum.  Always  we  were 
hoping  for  deliverance  from  the  overcrowded  tenement 
district  in  its  terrible  congestion.  First  came  the  ele- 
vated, and  then  we  thought,  "Now,  they  will  flow  north." 
They  did,  but  more  flowed  in.  Then  came  the  electric 
cars  and  bridges,  and  then  we  thought,  "Now,  they  will 
flow  out,"  and  they  did,  but  they  flowed  in  faster.  Then 
came  the  subway,  and  we  said,  "Now,  they  will  go,"  and 


jFm!)  atienue  pte$fipterian  C^urcfi         167 

they  did,  but  they  came  faster.  And,  by  and  by,  we 
shall  get  tunnels  from  Jersey  and  to  Long  Island,  and 
then  we  will  say,  "Now,  they  will  go" ;  and  so  they  will, 
but  they  will  come  faster! 

So  the  problem  remains  for  the  church,  and  for  the  in- 
dividual members  of  the  church,  a  problem  accentuated ; 
for  there  are  more  people  living  south  of  Fourth  Street 
and  east  of  Fifth  Avenue  than  ever  before,  and  ten  years 
from  now  there  will  be  still  more.  This  is  being  made 
possible  by  modern  appliances,  and  never  shall  I  forget 
when  I  saw  with  trepidation  the  establishment  of  the  first 
elevator  in  a  tenement  house.  I  thought  to  myself,  "Five 
stories  has  been  the  maximum  of  the  tenement  house, 
because  people  will  not  climb  more  than  four  flights  of 
stairs,  but  with  the  elevator  they  will  go  up  forty."  And 
when  the  elevator  comes  in  the  tenement  house,  as  it  has 
begun  to  come,  then  the  overcrowding  problem  assumes 
new,  vaster  and  more  momentous  proportions. 

Permit  me  to  say  that  there  are  many  streets  in  New 
York,  which  I  frequently  traverse,  where,  if  all  the  popu- 
lation on  either  side  came  out  on  the  street  at  the  same 
moment,  there  would  not  be  standing-room  for  them 
from  wall  to  wall. 

That  being  the  situation,  the  call  for  church  service, 
for  city  mission  work,  for  individual  activity,  never 
ceases;  for,  with  the  massing  of  the  population,  there 
mass  also  other  problems  grave  and  difficult  of  solution. 
In  the  solving  of  these  problems,  members  of  this  church 
have  achieved  wonderful  success. 

I  am  not  able  to  give  you  even  a  list  of  those  activities 
in  which  the  members  of  this  church  have  been  peculiarly 
blessed  and  peculiarly  a  blessing  to  the  city.  I  have 
jotted  down  some  of  them.  Take,  for  example,  the 
Museum  of  Natural  History,  owing  a  boundless  debt  of 
gratitude  to  one  of  the  former  members  of  this  church 
now  passed  to  his  rest.  Take  the  Presbyterian  Hospital, 
owing  also  a  debt  of  gratitude  to  this  church,  centering 


i68  Centennial  Celebration  of  tlje 

within  these  walls  practically.  Then  there  is  the  Eye  and 
Ear  Hospital,  and  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Associa- 
tion, and  the  Young  Women's  Christian  Association,  the 
Five  Points  House  of  Industry,  and  the  Children's  Aid 
Society,  and  I  know  not  how  many  of  these  organizations 
into  whose  life-blood  has  poured  the  faith  and  the  pur- 
pose and  the  money  of  those  who  at  present,  or  who  in 
former  days,  have  been  members  of  the  Fifth  Avenue 
Presbyterian  Church. 

I  honestly  believe  that  there  is  no  church  on  Manhat- 
tan Island  whose  activities  on  the  whole,  during  all  these 
years,  up  to  the  very  present  moment,  will  surpass  that 
of  this  church  along  every  line  of  the  purifying,  of  the 
elevating,  and  of  the  Christianizing  of  the  community  on 
the  island  on  which  we  dwell. 

Yesterday  I  went  to  see  the  Tuberculosis  Exhibit, 
thinking  it  a  fitting  thing  to  do  on  the  Lord's  day,  be- 
cause much  of  the  Lord's  work  there  is  exhibited  through 
the  hands  of  his  disciples,  and  when  I  saw  that  truly 
wondrous  exhibit,  I  blessed  God  that  we  were  on  the 
edge  of  conquering  that  great  white  plague  that  has 
wrought  such  havoc  throughout  the  length  and  breadth 
of  our  land ;  and  then  I  began  to  think  and  say,  "Right  is 
all  this ;  blessed  work  is  all  this ;  but  a  man  may  be  cured 
of  tuberculosis  and  remain  a  thief;  he  may  be  cured  of 
the  white  plague  and  remain  himself  a  black  plague  on 
society."  When  we  have  cured  the  man's  body  we  have 
gone  only  skin-deep,  as  it  were.  That  is  grand  work, 
and  God  speed  the  men  who  are  doing  work  of  this  kind ; 
but  we  have  also  that  work,  plus  a  larger,  more  abiding, 
more  important,  more  imperative  work  than  the  mere 
curing  of  the  body.  The  church  of  Christ  comes  to  this 
world  for  the  curing  of  the  soul.  In  that,  in  itself,  and 
through  other  organizations,  I  know  of  no  church  that 
has  done  grander  work  than  the  church  whose  hundredth 
anniversary  we  are  now  celebrating. 

And  now  to  close.     The  multiform  activities   of  the 


jFiftf)  atjenue  presfipterian  Cf)urcf)  169 

church  are  never  really  ultimately  realized.  There  lies, 
always  the  beyond  of  a  larger  possibility.  I  want  to  say 
that  for  one  humble  resident  of  Manhattan  Island  I  have 
been  cheered  and  comforted  by  the  attitude  that  this 
church  has  taken  of  late  years  along  two  lines ;  within  its 
own  walls,  I  mean.  One  is  the  providing  here  in  the 
summer  time,  for  those  who  remain  in  the  city  and  who 
come  to  the  city  of  necessity  for  the  summer,  of  preach- 
ing and  divine  worship  of  the  very  highest  grade.  Time 
was  when  this  was  not  always  the  case  with  the  churches 
in  this  town,  but  when  the  management  of  this  church  is 
of  such  an  intelligent  nature  that  they  place  in  this  pulpit 
men  of  national  and  international  reputation  during  June, 
July  and  August,  so  that  these  pews  and  galleries  are 
full,  never  mind  what  the  thermometer  says,  that  is  a 
benediction  to  this  great  town  of  ours ;  that  is  letting 
your  light  so  shine  that  men  see  your  good  works,  and 
glorify  your  Father  who  is  in  Heaven,  and  the  gathering 
here,  the  securing  here,  not  during  the  summer  season 
only,  but  at  times  during  the  regular  season,  of  men  like 
"Gypsy"  Smith,  and  other  men  we  can  mention — Camp- 
bell Morgan  and  Hugh  Black  and  the  like — the  gathering 
of  these  men  is  something  for  which  the  city  ought  to  be 
thankful,  and  of  which  this  church  has  just  reason  to 
be  sanctifiedly  proud. 

On  behalf  of  many  who  come  here,  who  are  not  mem- 
bers of  this  church,  to  whom  you  have  thus  ministered,  I 
desire  to  bring  a  token  of  gratitude,  and  to  render  in  their 
behalf  to  this  church  and  its  pastor  and  elders,  thanks  for 
this  careful  ministry  to  the  wants  of  the  great  spiritual 
public. 

A  hundred  years  have  closed,  and  another  hundred 
years  are  just  opening.  God  grant  that  those  hundred 
years  that  lie  before  us  may  be  as  marked  in  their  prog- 
ress and  as  engrossed  in  their  activity  as  the  hundred 
years  that  lie  behind  us  have  steadfastly  been  from  decade 
to  decade. 


I70  Centennial  Celebration  of  tfte 

In  behalf  of  that  society  that  I  represent,  let  me  close 
by  saying  sincerely :  We  thank  you  for  your  co-operation, 
for  your  sympathy,  and  for  your  substantial  aid. 


"Our  Qiurch  and  Home  Missions" 

Rev.  Charles  L.  Thompson,  D.  D. 

"Spiritual  strategy  demands  that  the  evangelization  of 
America  should  be  kept  in  advance  of  every  other  move- 
ment for  the  conversion  of  the  world."  So  wrote  that 
great  advocate  of  home  and  foreign  missions,  Professor 
Austin  Phelps.  His  statement  is  in  line  with  the  Master's 
command — to  compass  the  evangelization  of  the  world 
by  an  orderly  advance  from  established  centers.  He  rep- 
resents missions  as  a  movement.  It  is  not  an  institution — 
much  less  a  doctrine.  It  is  a  march — a.  march  that  must 
not  rest  till  the  world  has  been  brought  under  the  power 
of  the  principles  of  Jesus;  a  march  that  moves  outward 
like  rays  of  light  from  a  radiating  center.  Light  never 
jumps.  Its  line  is  continuous  and  unbroken.  And  history 
shows  that  that  missionary  adventure  is  mightiest  and 
most  conquering  when  it  conquers  as  it  goes. 

What  a  magnificent  and  victorious  wedge  of  gospel 
light  is  that  which,  starting  from  Jerusalem,  cleaves  the 
darkness  of  Asia  Minor,  crosses  into  southeastern  Europe, 
rises  over  the  Alps,  breaks  through  the  darkness  of  Ger- 
man forests,  crosses  over  into  the  druidic  night  of  the 
British  Isles,  and  then,  as  by  the  energy  of  all  its  con- 
quests, leaps  over  an  ocean  to  light  up  a  new  continent. 
Here  it  could  not  rest.  Already  by  accumulations  of  radi- 
ating power  it  has  streamed  over  the  Pacific  and  is  touch- 
ing with  first  pencils  of  sunrise  the  mountainous  pagan- 
ism of  a  final  continent. 

This  church  has  had  the  vision  of  a  strategist.  It  has 
taken  the  command  of  Christ  in  its  broadest  sweep  and 
in  its  most  philosophic  order.  For  generations  it  has 
been  a  missionary  church — not  in  spots,  not  for  sections. 


jFjftj)  atjenue  ptcsfiptetian  Cf)Utcl)         171 

It  has  striven  for  the  Kingdom,  whether  by  the  term  was 
meant  Manhattan  Island,  or  America,  or  the  world.  Re- 
fusing to  parcel  out  the  great  commission  to  this  section 
or  that,  to  this  race  or  that,  it  has  wrought  for  the  re- 
demption of  man. 

I  am  to  speak  to  you  of  what  it  has  done  in  a  century 
for  that  part  of  the  Kingdom  which  for  economic  reasons 
is  called  home  missions.  Missions  is  missions,  the  same 
in  principles  and  obligations.  One  command  covers  it  all. 
But  for  convenience  or  economy  it  has  two  great  divi- 
sions, no  more  to  be  distinguished  as  to  essential  char- 
acter or  motives  than  two  divisions  of  an  army  fighting 
the  same  battle.  What  now  has  this  church  done  for  that 
part  of  the  battle  whose  lines  are  under  the  national  flag? 

I  am  unable  to  give  the  figures  of  a  hundred  years. 
Much  of  the  first  half  of  the  century  is  lost  in  the  dust  of 
years.  But  in  general  terms  it  may  be  said  a  mighty  mis- 
sionary character  was  stamped  on  its  very  beginnings. 
It  could  not  be  otherwise.  This  church  was  born  in  the 
first  enthusiasm  for  modern  missions.  In  foreign  mis- 
sions the  thrill  of  the  "haystack  prayer-meeting"  was  still 
on  the  church.  In  home  missions  the  beginning  of  the 
last  century  marked  the  first  great  advance.  It  was  then 
that  Christian  pioneers  pierced  the  forests  of  the  Empire 
State  and  swung  their  thin  lines  over  the  Alleghenies.  It 
was  then  that  the  first  settlements  were  being  made  in 
the  old  Northwest,  and  missionaries,  with  commissions 
covering  a  state,  were  hurried  forward.  A  vision  of 
the  West — restricted  indeed  compared  to  that  which  since 
has  rolled  on  the  eyes  of  the  church,  but  romantic  and 
thrilling — came  over  the  consciousness  of  the  church. 
This  church  could  scarce  fail  to  feel  the  pulse  of  that 
mighty  movement  and  to  respond  to  its  power. 

The  history  of  this  church  in  home  missions  can  be  di- 
vided into  three  parts :  First,  the  personnel  of  the  church 
in  the  Board  of  Home  Missions;  second,  the  contribu- 
tions ;  and,  third,  the  interest  in  special  fields. 


172  Centennial  Cele&ration  of  tht 

First,  as  to  the  personnel.  The  Board  of  Home  Mis- 
sions was  organized  as  a  Committee  of  Home  Missions  in 
1803,  and  as  a  Home  Mission  Board  in  1816.  The  very 
next  year,  namely,  181 7,  the  Rev.  John  B.  Romeyn,  D.  D., 
pastor  of  the  church,  and  Elders  Bethune  and  Lewis  were 
members  of  the  board.  Dr.  Romeyn  was  at  that  time 
president  of  the  board.  In  1827  Zechariah  Lewis  was 
elected  by  the  General  Assembly,  and  in  1829  two  mem- 
bers of  the  session,  Cyrenius  Beers  and  Hugh  Auchin- 
closs,  were  members  of  the  board.  Dr.  George  Potts  was 
made  a  member  of  the  board  in  1839,  ^^-  James  W.  Al- 
exander in  1846,  Dr.  N.  L.  Rice  in  1862,  Dr.  John  Hall 
in  1869,  and  after  his  death  in  1898  he  was  succeeded  by 
Dr.  George  Purves,  whose  sudden  and  early  death  is  still 
mourned  by  this  church  and  by  the  Board  of  Home  Mis- 
sions in  whose  service  so  much  usefulness  was  promised. 
Robert  L.  Stuart,  who  for  a  number  of  years  was  leading 
trustee  in  our  church,  is  named  as  a  member  of  the  board 
in  185 1.  His  name  appears  again  in  1867.  Following 
him  was  Jacob  C.  Vermilye,  who  was  one  of  the  incor- 
porators of  the  present  board,  and  who  continued  in 
service  from  1871  to  1892.  He  was  succeeded  by  John 
S.  Kennedy  in  1892.  Mr.  H.  Edwards  Rowland  was 
made  a  member  of  the  board  in  1893.  Mr.  D.  B.  Ivison, 
who  subsequently  united  with  our  church,  was  a  membet 
of  the  board  in  1894,  and  Mr.  Henry  W.  Jessup  and  Mr. 
Rowland  represent  the  church  at  the  present  time. 

Dr.  John  Hall,  so  long  the  honored  and  beloved  pastor 
of  this  church,  became  president  of  the  board  in  1881, 
and  so  continued  until  his  death.  Punctual  in  his  at- 
tendance at  the  meetings  of  the  board,  devoted  to  all  its 
interests  from  the  larger  scope  of  it  to  the  smallest  de- 
tails at  the  board  meetings,  wise  in  counsel,  always 
courteous,  he  endeared  himself  to  the  entire  membership 
of  the  board  and  its  officers.  His  appeals  for  the  cause 
before  general  assemblies  from  year  to  year  will  long 
be  remembered. 


jFiftf)  atJenue  pre^fipterian  CJjurcft         173 

Second,  contributions.  As  early  as  1836  a  committee 
of  the  session  prepared  a  systematic  plan  of  beneficence 
for  this  church  and  recommended  that  the  attention  of 
the  people  be  directed  to  the  following  religious  benev- 
olences:  The  Bible  Society  in  the  month  of  November; 
Domestic  Missions,  December;  Education  Cause,  Janu- 
ary; Sabbath  Schools,  February;  Foreign  Missions, 
March;  Tract  Distribution,  April. 

It  thus  appears  that  very  early  in  its  history  this  church 
made  definite  plans  for  that  benevolent  work  which  has 
grown  to  such  conspicuous  dimensions.  Our  church  is 
just  beginning  to  realize  the  value  and  importance  of  sys- 
tematic ways  of  giving,  and  in  making  plans,  as  plans 
are  now  being  made,  for  the  adoption  of  definite  system 
in  benevolent  contributions,  this  church  may  proudly  point 
to  the  example  it  set  more  than  seventy  years  ago. 

I  am  unable  to  give  the  record  of  the  gifts  of  this 
church  to  the  Board  of  Home  Missions  for  any  date 
earlier  than  1845.  ^^  that  year  the  contribution  was  $763. 
That  was  about  the  average  of  contributions  up  to  1853, 
when  there  was  a  sudden  rising  in  the  offering,  which 
amounted  that  year  to  $3,779.  It  continued  at  an  average 
of  about  that  figure  for  the  next  seven  years.  In  1862  it 
rose  to  $8,500.  That  level,  however,  was  not  reached 
again  until  1869,  when  it  rose  to  $19,769.  From  then  on 
for  a  period  of  many  years  the  gifts  of  this  church — 
leading  all  the  other  churches  of  the  denomination — ad- 
vanced rapidly,  reaching  the  high-water  mark  in  1886, 
when  the  enormous  contribution  of  over  $50,000  is  re- 
corded. The  total  sum  contributed  during  the  past  sixty- 
three  years  reached  the  generous  aggregate  of  $953,973. 
There  are  undoubtedly  special  gifts  by  individuals  for 
our  work  that  are  not  listed  by  the  General  Assembly 
in  the  contributions  of  the  church  which  would  bring  the 
aggregate  up  far  beyond  a  million  dollars.  It  should  be 
said  of  this  sum  $187,000  is  the  gift  of  the  women's  or- 
ganizations to  the  Woman's  Board  of  Home  Missions. 


174  Centennial  Celebration  of  tfje 

One  of  the  most  conspicuous  and  useful  directions  in 
which  the  Fifth  Avenue  Church  has  given  itself  to  home 
mission  work  is  in  the  Home  Missionary  Society,  which, 
through  the  Woman's  Board  c<  Home  Missions,  has  been 
instrumental  in  doing  work  for  the  exceptional  popula- 
tions in  a  great  many  directions.  In  all  the  departments 
of  that  widely  extended  work  the  influence  of  this  society 
has  been  potent — among  the  Indians,  the  Mormons,  the 
Mexicans,  the  Mountaineers,  the  Alaskans  and  the 
Islanders. 

In  two  directions  especially  has  their  work  been  per- 
sistently good  and  fruitful — that  among  the  Indians  of 
the  Indian  Territory  and  among  the  Eskimos  of  Alaska. 

[At  this  point  the  speaker  reviewed  with  dramatic 
power  the  history  of  the  work  among  the  Indians.  He 
continued :] 

When  the  history  of  Indian  missions  is  written  there 
is  no  chapter  that  will  be  of  more  dramatic  interest  than 
that  of  the  origin,  migrations,  trials  and  victories  of  the 
Cherokees,  and  no  body  of  helpers  will  be  more  gratefully 
remembered  as  having  contributed  to  the  salvation  of 
these  neglected  people  than  the  Home  Missionary  Society 
of  the  Fifth  Avenue  Church. 

Another  direction  in  which  the  liberality  and  devotion 
of  this  church  has  been  manifest  is  in  that  farthest  and 
saddest  of  all  our  stations,  far  within  the  Arctic  Circle 
and  only  a  few  hundred  miles  this  side  of  the  North 
Pole.  It  has  been  called  the  loneliest  station  in  the  world. 
Until  recently  it  has  shared  that  distinction  with  St.  Law- 
rence Island,  in  Behring  Sea,  because  it  could  be  reached 
by  mail  only  once  a  year,  and  then  rather  precariously, 
for  sometimes  the  government  steamer  was  unable  to 
force  its  way  through  the  ice  and  has  had  to  turn  back 
without  delivering  its  cargo.  Now,  however,  thanks  to 
the  reindeer  service  initiated  by  Dr.  Sheldon  Jackson, 
there  is  mail  along  the  coast  to  Point  Barrow  two  or  three 
times  in  the  course  of  the  year. 


jfiftf)  auenue  presbpterian  Cf)urcti         175 

That  station  was  opened  by  Dr.  Jackson  in  1890.  It 
was  during  that  year  that  he  made  a  direct  appeal  to 
liberal  givers  in  this  church,  with  the  result  that  the  salary 
of  a  missionary  was  provided.  The  Rev.  Mr.  Stevenson 
was  the  first  missionary.  He  has  been  followed  by  two 
others — Dr.  Marsh  and  the  Rev.  S.  R.  Spriggs — each 
holding  the  field  for  a  number  of  years. 

The  conditions  they  have  had  to  face  have  been  hard 
in  the  extreme.  Not  only  the  isolation  and  the  sense  of 
solitude,  the  absolute  impossibility  of  securing  help  in 
the  case  of  any  serious  accident  or  illness,  the  rigors  of 
a  terrific  climate,  the  white  light  of  the  long  day  with  the 
sun  hanging  on  the  horizon,  and  the  equally  long  night 
when  for  three  months  the  work  must  be  carried  on  and 
the  life  must  be  lived  in  almost  unbroken  darkness ;  but 
also  the  stolidity,  degradation,  sickness  and  sufferings  of 
the  natives — all  these  things  conspire  to  make  it  a  field  of 
the  utmost  difficulty,  and  which  could  be  manned  only 
by  rare  heroism. 

To  these  difficulties  must  be  added  the  yet  more  serious 
one  of  the  evil  influence  of  fishermen  and  other  occa- 
sional travelers  whose  only  dealings  with  the  natives  are 
for  their  demorahzation  and  destruction. 

This  church  has  kept  that  light  burning  for  now  eight- 
een years.  Not  the  least  of  the  fruits  of  that  mission  has 
been  the  heroism  which  the  missionaries  have  displayed, 
and  which  has  testified  to  the  church  and  the  world  that 
the  days  of  apostolic  zeal  and  devotion  have  not  wholly 
passed  away. 

Last  year  the  Rev.  S.  R.  Spriggs  felt  obliged  to  retire 
from  the  service.  He  had  had  not  only  the  hardships  of 
the  climate  and  the  ordinary  obstacles  to  the  work,  but 
also  he  was  obliged  to  suffer  persecution  from  white  men 
who  were  the  enemies  of  missionary  work  for  the  Eski- 
mos. It  was  unfortunate  that  some  of  the  unjustifiable 
attacks  which  were  made  upon  his  conduct  were  made  by 
an  agent  of  the  Government,  an  inspector  of  school  work 


176  Centennial  Celebration  of  t[)e 

and  Alaskan  conditions.  But  the  persecutions  which  he 
thus  suffered  were  the  occasion  of  bringing  to  us  vindica- 
tions of  his  character  and  his  service  from  a  source  which 
was  so  unexpected  as  to  make  the  information  all  the 
more  beautiful. 

A  few  years  ago  a  Swedish  explorer,  bound  on  chart- 
ing some  of  the  lands  of  the  Polar  Sea — his  boat  having 
been  wrecked  and  he  having  been  obliged  to  come  out  on 
foot  from  three  hundred  miles  east  of  Point  Barrow — 
providentially  fell  in  with  our  missionary  on  reaching  that 
station.  Staying  with  him  for  a  week  he  became  so  con- 
vinced of  his  integrity  and  usefulness  as  a  missionary 
that,  though  not  a  religious  man  himself,  nor  an  Ameri- 
can, on  coming  to  New  York  he  sought  us  out  for  the 
purpose  of  expressing  to  us  his  conviction  of  the  good 
our  missionary  was  doing  and  of  the  unfounded  character 
of  the  reports  which  had  been  circulated  concerning  him. 

On  the  retirement  of  Mr.  Spriggs  we  sent  out  a  call  for 
a  missionary  to  take  his  place.  It  fell  under  the  eye  of 
Dr.  Marsh,  who  had  been  Mr,  Spriggs'  predecessor.  Al- 
though then  comfortably  pursuing  his  profession  in  an 
Illinois  town,  the  call  of  the  Eskimos  so  pulled  upon  him 
that  he  offered  himself  for  a  renewal  of  his  service.  In 
his  letter  of  application  he  said  a  trial  for  lunacy  might 
be  necessary  first,  for  his  parents  were  sure  that  he  must 
be  going  crazy.  But  he  knew  his  friends  in  the  Arctic 
Circle  would  welcome  him  and  he  wanted  to  go  back  and 
serve  them  with  his  medical  skill  and  missionary  zeal.  He 
is  there  now  in  the  darkness  of  the  Polar  winter. 

But  the  manifestation  of  these  qualities  of  heroism  and 
of  the  fact  that  God's  men  and  women  are  still  ready  to 
endure  hardness  for  the  Master's  sake,  are  not  the  only 
evidences  of  the  value  of  that  mission.  A  church  has 
been  organized  which  has  now  a  total  membership  of 
about  two  hundred,  and  they  are  trying  among  their  stern 
surroundings  to  live  lives  of  Christian  faith  and  service. 
That  they  are  backing  up  their  profession  by  their  deeds 


jFiftl)  atjcnue  Pre0tjpterian  Cl)utcJ)         177 

is  manifest  from  the  fact  that  since  the  first  of  April  of 
this  year  there  have  been  received  from  the  Ootkiavik 
Church  (that  is  the  name  of  the  organization  at  Point 
Barrow)  two  remittances  of,  respectively,  $i6o  and  $128. 
These  have  been  forwarded  by  a  Seattle  fur  company  to 
whom  furs  were  consigned  with  the  request  that  the  pro- 
ceeds be  forwarded  to  the  treasurer  of  the  Home  Board. 
They  have  no  money  to  give,  but  out  over  the  frozen  sea 
or  land  they  pursue  the  wild  animals  whose  skins  are 
their  gifts  for  extending  the  gospel  in  other  regions.  If 
the  churches  generally  gave  according  to  the  measure  of 
the  liberality  of  the  Ootkiavik  Church,  treasuries  of  mis- 
sions would  verily  overflow. 

It  is  a  far  cry  from  Alaska  to  Porto  Rico,  but  in  that 
beautiful  Island  the  women  of  this  church  also  have  their 
memorial — not  only  in  gifts  to  schools  and  to  the  Pres- 
byterian Hospital  at  San  Juan,  but  especially  later  in  the 
large  gift  of  one  of  the  ladies  of  this  church  of  about 
sixteen  thousand  dollars  for  the  purchase  and  rebuilding 
of  a  beautiful  property  for  the  use  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  there  and  of  the  school  under  the  care  of  the 
Woman's  Board. 

This  is  part  of  the  story  of  the  century  past.  What 
about  the  century  before  us  ?  This  at  least :  Down  its 
swift-coming  years  the  cause  for  which  you  have  stood 
so  grandly  will  go  forward  to  its  consummatioa  This 
land  shall  come  under  the  sway  of  the  gospel  of  Christ. 
And  through  this  land — according  to  the  measure  of  its 
responsibility — the  world  shall  be  evangelized.  And  this 
church  in  the  generations  to  come  will  be  true  to  its  his- 
tory, its  country,  and  its  God. 


"Our  Church  and  Foreign  Missions" 

Mr.  Robert  E.  Speer 
I  do  not  propose  to  attempt  any  record  of  the  achieve- 
ments of  this  church  in  the  work  of  foreign  missions  dur- 


178  Centennial  Celebration  of  t!)e 

ing  the  past  century.  I  do  not  know  them ;  no  man 
knows  them.  It  would  be  a  comparatively  easy  thing 
to  estimate  the  gifts  of  the  church,  as  a  church,  to 
foreign  missions  during  the  past  century,  aggregating, 
I  suppose,  including  legacies,  not  less  than  a  million 
and  a  half  dollars.  It  would  be  an  easy  thing  to  point 
out,  here  and  there  in  the  world,  investments  that  this 
church  has  made  in  the  missionary  enterprise;  the  sta- 
tion at  Shun  Te  Fu,  in  Northern  China,  which  this 
church  established  and  maintains;  here  and  there,  in 
many  lands,  buildings  which  represent  the  generous 
interest  of  the  people  of  this  congregation;  but  even 
after  we  have  made  a  list  of  all  the  achievements  of 
which  we  know,  we  should  be  sure  that  there  was 
more  of  which  we  did  not  know,  things  of  which  no 
record  has  been  made,  generous  expressions  of  inter- 
est, the  chief  beauty  of  which  was  that  they  were  done 
with  no  human  eye  to  mark  them.  And  even  if  we 
did  know  all  this  record,  we  should  have  no  time  here 
this  evening  to  review  it  all.  It  is  crowded  full,  we  may 
be  sure,  of  a  great  multitude  of  small  services  which  we 
never  could  find  time  even  to  remind  one  another  of,  if 
we  had  the  record  complete. 

Dr.  Stevenson  gave  me,  the  other  day,  a  copy  of  a  let- 
ter of  James  W.  Alexander's,  written  in  the  early  years, 
illustrative,  I  have  no  doubt,  of  a  great  deal  that  could 
be  dug  out  of  the  early  records  of  the  church.  "At  no 
time,"  he  wrote  before  the  Civil  War,  "have  we  had  a 
greater  concurrence  of  good  news  from  foreign  missions, 
and  an  accession  of  converts  in  almost  all.  Their  work 
is  going  on  with  great  energy.  We  to-day  contributed 
another  thousand  dollars  for  another  chapel  at  Ningpo, 
and  had  notice  of  an  equal  gift  from  an  individual,  for  the 
same  purpose.  Our  foreign  board  is  at  length  incor- 
porated, under  the  recent  law  of  this  State."  It  is  a 
rather  interesting  fact  that  the  young  member  of  the  legis- 
lature whose   energy   brought   about  that   incorporation. 


jFiftf)  auenue  ptesfipterian  Cfturcfi         179 

was,  I  believe,  Mr.  Chauncey  M.  Depew.  I  presume 
in  the  early  history  of  the  church  there  could  be  found 
a  great  many  records  of  this  kind,  indicative  of  the  in- 
terest of  this  church  in  small  missionary  enterprises  all 
over  the  world.  There  must  be  hundreds  of  them,  but 
even  if  we  knew  them  all,  and  had  time  to  review  them 
all,  we  could  not  estimate  here  this  evening,  or  at  any 
time,  their  real  values.  The  things  that  we  should  re- 
gard as  greatest,  time  would  probably  show  to  have  been 
among  the  least  important,  and  many  deeds  of  very  little 
consequence  in  the  judgment  of  those  who  did  them 
will  doubtless  turn  out,  in  the  end,  to  have  been  among 
the  great  and  memorable  achievements  of  the  church. 

These  things  are  of  little  consequence  to  recall.  What 
things  we  did  it  is  not  worth  while  remembering  for  their 
own  sake.  The  past  is  only  valuable  as  it  enables  men 
to  go  on  to  a  better  future,  and  the  things  which  fill  the 
past  are  of  no  interest  to  us,  save  as  they  embody  those 
great  principles  by  which  we  may  guide  ourselves  in  the 
years  that  are  to  come.  And  I  wish  to  speak  very  briefly 
of  three  great  missionary  principles,  illustrative  of  the 
interest  of  this  church  in  the  work  of  foreign  missions. 

In  the  Urst  place,  this  church  has  home  testimony  to 
the  real  end  and  business  of  the  church. 

It  conceived  from  the  very  beginning  of  the  church  as 
a  force  for  human  service.  I  was  looking,  this  afternoon, 
at  the  old  constitution  of  the  Young  Men's  Social  and 
Benevolent  Society  of  the  church,  in  the  introduction  of 
which  the  needs  of  the  young  men  of  the  church  in  the 
city  were  first  set  forth,  and  it  was  then  stated  that  the 
best  way  to  meet  these  needs  was  to  associate  young  men 
together  in  "united  benevolent  action."  From  the  very 
beginning  the  church  understood  that  to  be  her  mission ; 
that  she  was  not  a  society  for  the  spiritual  cultivation 
of  her  members,  that  she  was  a  gathering  together  of 
men  and  women  in  order  that  by  their  combined  activity 


i8o  Centennial  Celefitation  of  tfte 

they  might  exert  themselves  more  helpfully  for  their  fel- 
lows. 

And  the  church  perceived  from  the  beginning  that  this 
service,  w^hich  was  to  be  her  business,  was  to  be  wide  as 
all  human  need.  I  was  interested  when  Dr.  Thompson 
was  recalling  this  great  list  of  names,  to  recall  also 
how  those  same  names,  for  the  most  part,  had  been 
identified  with  the  foreign  missionary  activities  of  the 
church.  From  the  very  dawn  of  the  foreign  mission- 
ary enterprise  of  our  church  this  organization  has  been 
related  to  it.  There  has  never  wanted,  I  believe,  a 
year,  from  the  day  when  the  first  foreign  missionary 
organization  in  the  Presbyterian  Church  was  estab- 
lished, in  which  this  church  has  not  been  represented 
on  the  governing  board.  For  almost  half  this  century 
pastors  of  this  church  have  been  members  of  the  Board 
of  Foreign  Missions.  In  the  year  1817  two  mem- 
bers of  this  church,  the  pastor  and  one  of  the  elders, 
were  members  of  the  committee  for  organizing  a  for- 
eign missionary  society,  a  society  in  which  the  Presby- 
terian Church,  and  the  Dutch  Reformed  Church,  and  the 
Associated  Reformed  Church  united  to  carry  on  foreign 
missionary  work.  Three  members  of  this  church  became 
members  of  that  new  board,  which  was  in  existence  for 
ten  years.  In  1826  it  was  proposed  to  consolidate  that 
united  missionary  organization  with  the  American  Board 
of  Commissioners  for  Foreign  Missions,  and  Zechariah 
Lewis  was  on  the  committee  having  in  charge  the  meas- 
ures of  consolidation.  When  the  consolidation  was  ef- 
fected, and  the  Presbyterian  Church  had  no  longer  any 
foreign  missionary  society  of  its  own,  the  home  mis- 
sionary organization  was  authorized  to  undertake,  if  it 
desired,  foreign  missonary  work.  It  was  feared,  how- 
ever, that  that  might  lead  to  some  misunderstanding  as 
between  our  own  church  and  the  American  Board,  and 
there  was  no  further  organized  foreign  missionary  ac- 
tivity on  the  part  of  the  church  as  a  whole  until  the  year 


jFiftl)  atjenue  prestiptenan  Cl)utcf)         iSi 

1837.  The  conscience  of  the  church,  however,  was  not 
easy  under  that  situation.  There  were  men  who  believed 
that  it  was  not  right  for  a  great  Christian  organization 
not  to  carry  on  foreign  missionary  activities  in  its  own 
name,  and  in  its  own  character,  as  an  ecclesiastical  organ- 
ization. 

Out  in  Pennsylvania,  in  the  year  183 1,  there  was  organ- 
ized what  was  called  the  Western  Foreign  Missionary 
Society,  which  was  intended  to  redeem  the  Presbyterian 
Church  from  what  those  who  founded  it  deemed  the  dis- 
grace of  having  no  authorized  foreign  missionary  organi- 
zation of  its  own.  In  the  Assembly  of  1835  the  ques- 
tion came  up  as  to  whether  this  Western  Foreign  Mis- 
sionary Society  should  be  taken  over  by  the  Presby- 
terian Church.  I  have  no  doubt  with  the  influence 
of  those  who  were  strong  in  the  councils  of  this  organ- 
ization, the  General  Assembly  of  that  year  resolved  to 
undertake  measures  looking  to  the  consolidation  of  the 
Western  Foreign  Missionary  Society  with  the  growing 
spread  of  foreign  missions  throughout  the  church  as  a 
whole.  The  Assembly  of  1836  reversed  that  action  by  a 
very  narrow  majority,  but  the  Assembly  of  the  following 
year  reversed  that  reversal  and  set  up  our  foreign  mis- 
sionary board,  which  has  been  in  existence  from  that  year 
down  to  this. 

Dr.  Potts  and  Hugh  Auchincloss  were  made  members 
of  that  board.  Of  the  seven  or  eight  members  of  the  first 
executive  committee  of  that  board,  Dr.  Potts  and  Mr. 
Auchincloss  were  two.  From  that  day  down  to  this  that 
board  or  committee  has  never  lacked  representatives  from 
this  church.  Dr.  Potts  was  succeeded  by  Dr.  Alexander 
and  Dr.  Alexander  by  Dr.  Rice.  Mr.  Auchincloss  was 
succeeded  by  Robert  L.  Stuart  and  he  by  Hooper  C. 
Van  Vorst,  and  he  by  Alexander  Maitland  and  War- 
ner Van  Norden,  and  now  Dr.  Stevenson  closes  the 
long  roll  of  the  century  that  binds  the  organization 
work  of  foreign  missions  of  our  church  to  the  life  of 


i82  Centennial  Celebration  of  tf)e 

this  individual  organization ;  and  best  of  all,  it  was  out 
of  this  church,  through  the  voice  of  Dr.  James  W. 
Alexander,  that  there  came  the  very  noblest  and  most 
classic  expression  of  what  the  character,  the  real  char- 
acter, of  the  church  as  a  missionary  organization  must  be. 
There  was  a  great  controversy  that  went  on  in  those  early 
days  between  Jeremiah  Evarts,  championing  one  side 
(the  father  of  Senator  William  M.  Evarts,  and  the  first 
treasurer  and  the  second  secretary  of  the  American  Board 
of  Commissioners  for  Foreign  Missions),  and  Elijah  P. 
Swift  and  Walter  Lowrie  championing  the  other  side. 
The  contention  of  Mr.  Evarts  was  that  the  ideal  of  for- 
eign missionary  administration  was  for  all  ecclesiastical 
organizations  of  America  to  sink  their  individual  char- 
acter to  unite  in  those  elements  that  were  common  to 
them  all,  and  carry  on  their  foreign  missionary  activities 
under  the  one  great  common  organization.  It  was  the 
contention,  on  the  other  hand,  of  Elijah  P.  Swift  and 
Walter  Lowrie  that  the  work  of  foreign  missions  could 
not  be  entrusted  to  a  voluntary  organization  with 
which  men  might  or  might  not  associate  themselves ; 
that  the  foreign  missionary  responsibility  was  inherent 
in  the  character  of  the  church,  and  that  the  church  must 
in  her  own  corporate  capacity  undertake  her  foreign  mis- 
sionary responsibilities  and  that  she  dare  not  concede,  or 
let  her  members  assume,  that  the  missionary  obligation 
was  optional  with  them ;  that  she  must  contend  that  by  the 
very  virtue  of  the  fact  they  were  members  of  the  church 
they  were  also  bound  to  all  the  missionary  obligations  of 
the  gospel. 

It  was  in  the  Assembly  of  1847  that  Dr.  James  W. 
Alexander  gave  expression  to  that  great  conception. 
"Those  who  have  gone,"  he  said,  "admitted  the  claim 
of  Christ's  cause  on  us  as  a  church ;  one  of  them  espe- 
cially has  left  us  his  testimony.  Consider,  reverend 
brethren,  these  words,  of  date  March  4,  183 1,  words  sug- 
gested to  this  court  of  Jesus  Christ  by  Dr.  Rice,  Tn  the 


jFiftl)  atJenue  presbpterian  CI)Utcft         183 

judgment  of  this  General  Assembly,  one  of  the  principal 
objects  of  the  institution  of  the  church  by  Jesus  Christ 
was  not  so  much  the  salvation  of  individual  members — 
for  whosoever  believeth  shall  be  saved — as  the  communi- 
cation of  the  blessings  of  the  gospel  to  the  destitute  with 
the  efficiency  of  united  effort ;'  "  and  then,  speaking  for 
himself.  Dr.  Alexander  went  on:  "The  Presbyterian 
Church  is  a  missionary  society,  the  object  of  which  is  to 
aid  in  the  conversion  of  the  world,  and  every  member  of 
the  church  is  a  member  for  life  of  said  society,  and  bound 
to  do  all  in  his  power  for  the  accomplishment  of  this 
object." 

Dr.  Alexander  gave  us  in  those  words,  I  think,  the 
noblest  statement  we  have  of  the  real  missionary  charac- 
ter of  the  church.  From  that  day  down  to  this  we  have 
steadily  resisted  all  ideas  of  organization  which  rested 
on  the  assumption  that  only  those  men  and  women  in  our 
church  passed  under  the  missionary  obligation  who  vol- 
untarily did  so.  We  have  repudiated  the  idea  that  the 
missionary  obligation  was  a  matter  of  individual  choice. 
We  have  contended,  as  this  church  has  contended  in  all 
its  history,  that  the  whole  organization  is  a  missionary 
organization,  and  that  every  man  and  woman  and  child 
who  passes  into  that  organization  becomes  by  that  very 
fact  a  member  of  the  great  missionary  society,  not  re- 
quiring any  additional  enlistment,  nor  open  to  say  that 
the  missionary  enterprise  makes  no  appeal  to  him  or  to 
her,  but  bound  by  the  very  fact  of  church  membership  to 
an  obligation  to  share  the  gospel,  which  has  come  in  and 
through  the  church,  with  the  whole  great  world. 

During  the  century  of  her  history,  this  church  has  stood 
for  that  great  principle. 

In  the  second  place,  the  church  has  demonstrated  that 
fidelity  to  the  main  end  and  business  of  the  church  is  the 
secret  of  spiritual  vitality  and  success. 

Now,  one  might  have  pardoned  this  church  almost  if. 


i84  Centennial  Celebration  of  fbt 

in  those  early  days,  it  had  felt  that  the  task  of  foreign 
missions  must  be  postponed  until  some  future  time.  The 
city  was  all  raw  and  crude,  everything  needed  to  be  done 
for  home  development;  its  resources  were  as  yet  un- 
sealed. A  very  strong  argument  might  have  been  made 
out  for  the  position  that  there  were  no  resources  to  be 
spared  for  enterprises  in  distant  lands ;  that  all  the  capital 
the  church  could  command  was  required  by  the  exigencies 
of  her  situation  at  home,  and  there  were  not  wanting  in 
the  organization  those  that  took  that  view.  Indeed,  there 
was  almost  fear  for  a  while  that  the  Church  of  Scotland 
would  entirely  go  over  to  that  view.  In  one  Assembly 
there  was  a  great  argument  on  that  proposition,  and  the 
leaders  of  the  Moderate  Party  in  the  Church  of  Scotland 
steadily  resisted  the  whole  missionary  idea.  Men  must 
wait  until  the  church  at  home  was  settled  more  securely  on 
her  own  foundation,  until  her  own  home  resources  were 
more  developed,  before  she  ventured  out  into  more  distant 
countries.  This  church  realized  the  true  law  of  spiritual 
blessing.  She  realized,  as  Dr.  Thompson  has  said,  that 
light  goes  not  by  leaps  and  bounds,  but  steadily,  and  that 
what  was  shining  far  away  would  not  have  shone  there,  if 
it  had  not  shone  all  along  its  route  to  the  ends  of  the 
earth ;  that  what  was  to  be  done  could  not  be  done  there 
if  it  were  not  springing  forth  here  all  the  time  with  a 
force  powerful  enough  to  carry  clear  from  the  home  lands 
to  the  uttermost  parts  of  the  earth. 

The  church  realized  clearly  that  the  only  way  that  the 
light  could  shine  pure  and  undimmed  here  at  home;  that 
the  only  way  she  could  develop  power  enough  to  deal 
with  the  great  problems  that  confronted  her  here,  was  by 
kindling  a  light  that  would  shine  to  the  ends  of  the  earth, 
and  creating  a  power  so  strong  that  no  national  boundary 
could  define  it,  so  generous  that  it  must  go  out  as 
far  as  there  was  a  human  heart  needing  Christ's  gos- 
pel. And  the  history  of  the  church  shows  how  clear 
the  church's  vision  was  of  this  fundamental   Christian 


jFiftj)  atJenuc  pteisfjptetian  Cfjutcl)         185 

principle.  Was  she  impoverished  by  what  she  did  for 
distant  lands?  This  noble  record  of  what  she  has  done 
at  home  was  only  made  possible  by  her  fideHty  to  the  law 
of  spiritual  life  and  power.  She  realized  in  her  own  ex- 
perience that  fidelity  to  the  great  universal  purpose  of 
God  was  the  one  road  to  blessing  and  power  in  all  her 
home  activities. 

And,  thirdly,  there  was  one  other  blessing  that  the  cen- 
tury has  taught  us.  I  speak  just  in  a  word  of  that.  What 
a  noble  thing  it  is  when  men  and  women  give  thefnselves, 
zi'hat  they  are,  and  zvhat  they  have,  to  noble  causes! 

There  rise  up  before  our  memories  to-night  many  great 
lives  which  we  thank  God  it  was  our  privilege  in  little 
or  in  larger  measure  to  know,  made  noble  and  glorious 
by  the  largeness  of  their  sentiments,  by  the  far-ranging 
love  with  which  they  served  mankind,  by  the  depth  of 
their  devotion  to  the  great  character  transforming  pur- 
pose of  the  Saviour. 

You  do  not  breed  the  great  character  in  petty  activities ; 
you  do  not  lead  out  to  the  larger  life  through  narrow  and 
constricted  growths.  The  best  character  is  developed 
where  men  and  women  lend  themselves,  nay,  give  them- 
selves away,  to  the  largest  and  most  unselfish  causes,  and 
many  a  voice  calls  to  us  out  of  these  past  years  to  act,  to 
rise  up  out  of  our  own  smallness  of  growth,  our  own  nar- 
row ranges  of  action,  our  own  petty  and  provincial  out- 
look and  light,  to  take  the  same  clear  vision  which  they 
took,  and  to  enter  into  the  same  great  character  trans- 
forming powers  that  wrought  upon  them;  for,  after  all, 
that  is  the  purpose  of  the  past.  The  purpose  of  the  past 
is  not  to  be  recalled  to  be  gloried  in,  not  to  be  recalled  to 
be  gloated  over.  That  past  to  which  men  tie  themselves 
is  a  past  to  which  men  are  false  and  untrue.  Only  those 
men  are  really  true  and  loyal  to  the  past  who  move  away 
from  it ;  who  see  that  it  is  there  to  be  left  behind,  farther 
and  ever  farther  behind ;  who  realize  that  its  great  pur- 
pose was  simply  to  show  men  the  way  to  a  better  and  a 


i86  Centennial  CelelJration  of  tije 

larger  future.  And  all  these  great  achievements  of  the  last 
one  hundred  years  in  the  foreign  missionary  enterprise, 
and  the  clear  discernment  of  the  church's  end  and  busi- 
ness, and  the  personal  experience  of  the  blessing  that 
comes  only  through  fidelity  to  that  end  and  business,  and 
the  glory  of  character  only  to  be  reached  by  the  devotion 
of  life  to  great  causes ;  all  these  are  only  the  summons  and 
appeal  of  the  past  to  us,  to  move  up  into  a  larger  and  a 
greater  and  a  more  completely  universal  service  in  the 
years  that  come. 

AT  THE  CENTENNIAL  RECEPTION,  held  Tues- 
day, December  22,  8:30  to  10:30  P.  M.,  through  the 
courtesy  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  B,  Alexander,  at  their 
home,  4  West  Fifty-eighth  Street,  the  following  informal 
addresses  were  made  by  : 
Rev.  Baxter  P.  Fullerton,  D.  D. 

(Moderator  of  the  General  Assembly) 
Rev.  John  F.  Carson,  D,  D. 

(Moderator  of  the  Synod  of  New  York) 
Rev.  George  Alexander,  D.  D. 

(Moderator  of  the  Presbytery  of  New  York) 
Rev.  Francis  L.  Patton,  D.  D.,  LL.  D. 

(President  of  Princeton  Theological  Seminary) 

Rev.  Baxter  P.  Fullerton,  D.  D.,  Moderator  of  the  Gen- 
eral Assembly,  having  been  appropriately  presented  by 
the  pastor,  spoke  as  follows  : 

It  is  my  pleasing  duty  to  bear  to  you  the  greeting  of  the 
•One  Hundred  and  Twentieth  General  Assembly  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United  States  of  America.  It 
is  worth  while  to  come,  even  from  Oklahoma,  and  in  a 
stage-coach,  if  necessary,  to  be  the  messenger  from  such 
a  body  to  such  a  child.  The  meeting  of  the  Assembly, 
the  last  meeting,  was  a  very  important  one,  because 
of  the  fact  that  it  met  in  what  was  the  Western  outpost 
of  missionary  effort  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  for  many 
years,  in  a  city  that  had  been  made  sacred  to  Presbyteri- 


jFiftf)  atienue  ptesfiptetian  Cijurcli         187 

ans  because  of  the  life  and  work  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Timothy 
Hill,  that  apostle  of  Presbyterianism. 

The  city  stands  on  the  border  of  the  great  prohibition 
State  of  Kansas.  It  is  just  inside  of  the  western  boundary 
of  the  greater  State  of  Missouri.  (I  may  speak  it  with 
pardonable  pride,  as  a  native  of  the  soil.)  The  Assembly 
was  a  great  assembly  also  because  of  the  number  of  peo- 
ple that  were  in  it,  when  one  thinks  of  the  Assembly  over 
which  the  pastor  of  this  church  was  moderator  at  one 
time,  and  the  last  Assembly,  comparing  numbers  with 
numbers. 

At  the  last  Assembly  there  were  eight  hundred  and  six 
commissioners,  not  counting  the  ten  advisory  members — 
and  it  is  always  wise  to  have  advisory  members  in  an  As- 
sembly— and  sixteen  corresponding  members,  making  a 
total  of  eight  hundred  and  thirty-two. 

There  were  old  men  present  that  showed  the  signs  of 
war.  There  were  young  men  that  had  caught  the  sound 
of  battle,  and  were  anxious  for  the  fray,  but  they  were 
Presbyterians  of  the  same  kind.  They  represented  thirty- 
six  synods,  two  hundred  and  seventy-nine  Presbyteries, 
and  a  constituency  of  one  million  three  hundred  thousand 
three  hundred  and  twenty-nine. 

It  was  a  great  Assembly,  because  of  its  national  char- 
acter, by  reason  of  the  recent  union  of  the  two  churches. 
The  Presbyterian  Church  is  now  a  national  church.  The 
line  separating  between  north  and  south  has  been  wiped 
out  by  the  Presbyterian  Church,  and  the  hand  of  the 
North  and  the  hand  of  the  South  are  clasped  over  the 
chasm  that  an  unfortunate  war  made. 

If  the  time  ever  was  when  the  Presbyterian  Church,  of 
which  we  are  members,  could  be  called  a  provincial 
church,  that  day,  thank  God,  has  gone,  and  we  now 
stretch  from  the  frigid  climate  of  Alaska  to  the  palm 
groves  of  Porto  Rico  and  Cuba,  and  from  the  coast  of 
Maine  to  the  Golden  Gate,  and  we  are  all  Presbyterians, 
American  Presbyterians. 


i88  Centennial  Celebration  of  tfte 

It  was  also  a  great  Assembly,  because  it  was  an  inter- 
national Assembly.  Members  were  there  from  Chili  and 
China  and  Cuba,  and  Northern  and  Western  India,  Japan, 
and  Korea  and  Laos  and  Syria,  all  Presbyterians,  and 
they  came  in  order  that  they  might  plan  for  larger  things 
yet  in  the  Presbyterian  Church. 

It  is  this  body,  Mr.  Chairman,  and  ladies  and  gentle- 
men, whose  greetings  I  bring  to  the  Fifth  Avenue  Church, 
and  whose  greetings  I  am  proud  to  bear  to  you. 

We  congratulate  you,  first  of  all,  that  you  are  a  link 
in  a  chain  that  has  already  a  hundred,  and  we  congratu- 
late you  that  the  strongest  link  in  that  chain,  we  believe, 
is  the  present.  We  congratulate  you  on  the  heritage  you 
have  in  the  men  and  women  who  have  gone  before  you. 
They  were  noble  sires  and  matrons  of  noble  sons  and 
daughters,  and  we  thank  God  that  you  have  caught  the 
spirit  which  was  so  clearly  manifest  in  them,  and  have 
taken  the  banner  which  they  carried  and  have  planted  it 
nearer  the  rampart  of  the  enemy.  We  congratulate  you 
also,  on  the  men  who  have  been  and  the  men  who  are 
now  in  the  pulpit  of  the  Fifth  Avenue  Church.  If  you 
have  prided  yourself  on  the  fact  that  they  belong  to  you, 
let  me  puncture  that  bubble  of  your  pride,  because  they 
were  greater  than  any  one  church ;  they  were  greater 
than  any  synod ;  they  are  the  heritage  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church  in  the  United  States  of  America,  and  the 
Presbyterian  Church  the  world  around.  And  may  I  go 
further  to  say,  they  are  the  heritage  of  Christendom,  and 
have  made  their  impress  upon  it  in  a  very  marked  way. 

And  we  congratulate  you  on  this  fact,  that  for  your 
present  pastor  you  went  toward  the  West — we  have 
plenty  more  out  there  when  you  are  through  with  this 
one. 

We  congratulate  you  also  upon  the  fact  that  in  the 
providence  of  God,  and  because  of  his  great  blessings 
to  you,  and  your  wide  use  of  these  blessings,  you  take 
front  rank  in  this  great  church  in  its  benevolent  work. 


jFiftf)  auenue  presfipterian  Cijutcfj         189 


That  is  both  a  cause  of  congratulation  and  it  is  a  cause  of 
humble  pride. 

It  is  worth  while  for  a  man  as  moderator  of  the  Gen- 
eral Assembly  to  come  half  across  the  continent  to  bear 
greetings  to  a  church  that,  during  the  last  fiscal  year,  laid 
upon  the  altar  of  God  one  thousand  dollars  a  week  for 
the  pushing  of  the  Kingdom  of  God  at  home,  and  twenty- 
five  hundred  dollars  a  month  for  the  pushing  of  the  King- 
dom of  God  abroad. 

It  is  worth  while,  indeed,  for  the  moderator  to  stop  in 
a  busy  life  and  come  half  way  across  the  continent,  and 
say,  in  the  name  of  the  General  Assembly,  which  has  put 
upon  me  the  highest  honor  it  can  put  upon  any  man, 
"God  bless  you  and  God  speed  you  and  your  work." 

Now,  my  closing  remark,  ladies  and  gentlemen,  is  this : 
I  am  sure  that  I  voice  the  sentiments  of  the  General  As- 
sembly, and  the  great  church  of  which  you  are  a  dis- 
tinguished member,  when  I  say  we  pray  that  the  splendid 
history  which  is  back  of  you  may  be  dimmed  only  by  the 
more  splendid  history  which  you  are  to  make  in  the  im- 
mediate future  and  the  days  to  come. 

Never  was  there  a  time  when  the  influence  of  the  Chris- 
tian church  meant  more  for  the  betterment  of  mankind 
than  at  this  present  time.  Never  was  there  a  time  when 
influences  started  in  the  United  States  of  America  were 
more  potent,  all  about  the  world,  than  they  are  to-day; 
and,  Mr.  Pastor  and  members  of  the  Fifth  Avenue 
Church,  I  congratulate  you  that  you  stand  in  the  very 
front  ranks  of  the  great  church  which  to-day,  about  the 
world,  is  holding  forth  with  no  uncertain  sound  the  word 
of  God,  and  is  pushing  forward  with  a  mighty  movement 
in  favor  of  the  evangelization  of  the  world. 

In  the  name  of  the  Assembly,  which  has  honored  me 
with  this  office,  and  in  the  name  of  the  whole  church,  I 
bid  you  Godspeed  and  wish  you  God's  blessing. 

Rev.  John  F.  Carson,  D.  D.,  Moderator  of  the  Synod 


I90  Centennial  Celetitation  of  tfte 

of  New  York,  spoke  for  that  body,  for  Brooklyn,  and  for 
himself  as  a  friend  of  our  church  and  its  work: 

I  assure  you  that  it  is  a  very  great  pleasure  to  respond 
to  the  threefold  announcement.  I  bring  a  personal  greet- 
ing. I  bring  a  greeting  from  the  churches  of  Brooklyn,, 
the  pious  end  of  the  bridge ;  and  I  bring  also  greetings 
from  the  Synod  of  New  York. 

I  do  not  know  much  about  the  Synod.  This  moderator- 
ship  is  rather  an  unusual  thing  for  me.  If  some  of  the 
gentlemen  whom  I  see  present  here  to-night  were  to 
speak  for  the  Synod  (I  do  not  know  how  many  times 
some  of  them  have  been  moderators  in  one  capacity  or 
another),  they  would  be  able  to  tell  you  something  about 
the  Synod,  but  I  know  very  little  about  it.  By  some  ac- 
cident or  another,  I  was  elected  moderator  of  the  Synod 
of  New  York,  and  I  assure  you  it  is  a  great  joy  to  me 
that  the  term  of  my  office  covers  the  period  of  the  cele- 
bration of  the  hundredth  anniversary  of  this  great  church. 

I  bring  you,  however,  as  moderator,  I  am  confident,  the 
hearty  greeting  and  felicitation  of  every  Presbyterian 
church,  of  every  Presbyterian  minister,  and  every  Presby- 
terian church  member  throughout  the  State  of  New  York 
and  New  England. 

The  relation  of  the  Fifth  Avenue  Church  to  the  work 
of  the  Synod  of  New  York  is  so  well  known  that  I  need 
not  attempt  to  repeat  the  story.  If  I  did,  it  would  mean 
the  repetition  of  statistics,  and  I  am  not  very  good  at 
doing  that.  I  remember  a  story,  if  it  would  not  break  the 
dignity  of  this  splendid  occasion  to  tell  a  story,  that  is 
told  about  a  little  girl  in  Brooklyn.  (Of  course,  I  have 
to  go  to  Brooklyn  for  good  things,  you  know,  in  the  story 
line.)  We  have  a  custom  in  Brooklyn  of  charging  half 
fare  for  children  under  twelve  years  of  age  who  ride  on 
our  cars.  This  little  girl  was  riding  one  day,  and  handed 
her  three  cents  to  the  conductor.  He  looked  at  her  and 
said,  "The  fare  is  five  cents."    She  looked  up  at  him,  and 


jFift!)  auenue  pte^tiptetian  CfjurcJ)         191 

she  said,  "I  never  paid  anything  but  tlM-ee  cents."  And,, 
looking  very  earnestly  at  her  for  a  moment,  he  said, 
"How  old  are  you?"  And  the  little  girl  cast  an  indignant 
look  into  the  face  of  the  conductor,  opened  her  little  purse, 
handed  out  her  nickel,  and  said,  "There,  sir,  I  will  pay  my 
fare,  and  I  will  keep  my  statistics  to  myself." 

Well,  I  fancy  I  would  rather  keep  these  statistics  to 
myself  to-night;  but  I  assure  you  that  the  great  Fifth 
Avenue  Church  has  been  a  potent  factor  and  has  been 
a  dominant  force  in  the  Presbyterianism,  not  of  New 
York  State  alone,  but  of  this  entire  country,  and  as  we 
look  for  a  reason  for  this,  I  think  that  we  can  find  it  in 
the  attitude  of  the  church,  and  in  the  attitude  of  the  pul- 
pit of  the  Fifth  Avenue  Church.  That  pulpit  has  ever 
been  strong  and  true  and  steadfast  in  the  maintenance  of 
those  fundamental  principles  which  give  sufficient  war- 
rant for  the  church's  existence,  and  those  basic  truths  in 
which  repose  the  faith  and  the  hope  of  the  ages,  and  of 
humanity. 

In  face  of  the  changing  thoughts  of  men,  in  these  swirl- 
ing eddies  of  speculation,  and  of  the  development  so 
called  of  new  phases  of  truth,  the  pulpit  of  the  Fifth 
Avenue  Presbyterian  Church  has  never  vacillated,  and,  in 
its  steadfast  adherence  to  the  faith,  once  for  all  delivered 
to  the  saints  in  the  first  century  and  sufficient  to  meet  the 
intellectual  and  spiritual  needs  of  the  saints  of  the  twen- 
tieth century,  in  adhering  to  that  old  faith  and  that  old 
gospel,  the  Fifth  Avenue  Church  has  become  a  force  for 
God  in  this  country  that  it  never  could  have  been  if  its 
pulpit  had  been  vacillating  and  uncertain  in  its  adherence 
to  divine  truth  and  the  proclamation  of  that  truth. 

My  friends,  I  think  I  can  say  this  confidently,  that  the 
pulpit  of  the  Fifth  Avenue  Church  has  been  a  blessing 
to  the  churches  and  the  ministers  of  America.  It  has  told 
our  ministers  that  a  man  can  hold  and  preach  the  old 
truths  and  continue  to  preach  them,  and  his  church,  under 
his  administration,  will  be  strong  and  influential  and  at- 


192  Centennial  Celefitation  of  t|)e 

tractive.  There  has  been  no  following  of  these  popular 
fads  and  isms;  there  has  been  no  bowing  down  to  the 
vagaries  of  thought  or  of  method  in  your  great  church, 
and  I  believe  God  has  blessed  it  for  its  fidelity  to  truth, 
and  for  its  advocacy  of  the  great  principles  of  our  faith. 

Your  adherence  to  an  evangelical  and  evangelistical,  to 
a  conservative  and  aggressive  Christianity  under  God,  has 
been  the  secret  of  your  prosperity  through  these  hundred 
years. 

From  the  very  beginning,  the  Fifth  Avenue  Church 
has  been  an  important  force  in  the  life  of  our  church,  and 
in  the  lives  of  the  churches  of  Christ  of  every  name. 

I  congratulate  you.  I  congratulate  you,  not  only  on 
what  has  been,  but  on  what  is  at  the  present  time.  You 
have  had  great  men  in  the  pulpit  of  the  Fifth  Avenue 
Church,  and  I  rejoice  with  you  to-night  that  in  the  holy 
succession  of  these  apostles  you  have  J.  Ross  Stevenson 
as  your  minister  to-day. 

We  sometimes  cannot  say  before  a  man's  face  what  we 
do  say  behind  his  back,  but  I  think  I  will  not  violate  any 
of  the  proprieties  of  this  occasion  if  I  voice  what  I  know 
to  be  the  sentiments  of  the  ministers  of  our  church,  and 
especially  of  the  younger  men  of  the  church,  with  whom 
I  have  come  more  or  less  into  touch  as  a  father  in  Israel, 
that  these  men  prize  and  honor  this  man  of  God  who  is 
your  pastor,  because  he  stands  four-square  against  every 
form  and  phase  of  destructive  thought,  and  that  he  stands 
as  the  aggressive  leader  of  every  forward  movement  in 
our  Presbyterian  Church,  and  we  rejoice  that  in  a  church 
that  is  so  influential  in  giving  tone  and  direction  to  many 
of  the  tendencies  of  our  Presbyterian  Church  life,  we 
have  one  whose  ministry  rings  ever  true.  And  I  rejoice 
that  associated  with  him  is  Dr.  Hallenbeck,  whose  work 
in  Brooklyn  and  whose  work  in  Buffalo  is  being  repeated 
in  New  York,  in  its  impress  upon  our  evangelization. 

My  friends,  the  great  work  of  the  Fifth  Avenue  Church 
is  extending  far  beyond  your  own  walls ;  it  is  touching  the 


jFifti)  atienue  ptesfiptetian  Cfturcfj         193 

life  of  all  our  church,  and  helping  ministers  and  churches. 

Let  me  close  by  expressing  once  more  my  greeting  to 
you.  My  deep  rejoicing  I  know  is  joined  in  by  ministers 
everywhere,  that  this  great  church  comes  to  the  end  of 
these  hundred  years  of  honored  history  and  stands  forth 
with  as  fair  and  fine  a  front  to  her  work,  with  as  fresh 
and  fervent  enthusiasm  for  her  work,  with  as  various 
and  vigorous  an  equipment  of  thought  and  resources  of 
spirit,  with  as  sane  and  strong  a  leadership  in  its  min- 
isters and  in  its  officials  as  the  Fifth  Avenue  Church  ever 
had  in  any  period  of  its  history. 

May  God  grant  that  under  this  leadership,  and  with 
this  equipment,  and  through  this  inspiration,  and  en- 
thusiasm, you  may  be  able  to  accomplish  even  greater 
things  until  He  comes  to  whose  will  we  all  bow,  and 
whom  we  serve. 

Rev.  George  Alexander,  D.  D.,  then  spoke  as  Mod- 
erator of  the  Presbytery  of  New  York : 

Kind  friends  of  the  Fifth  Avenue  Church,  I  accidentally 
encountered  your  pastor  last  evening,  and  he  made  a 
statement  which,  for  the  moment,  staggered  me.  He  put 
forward  the  claim  that  he  was  my  father-in-law,  and  went 
on  to  prove  it  to  his  own  satisfaction  and  to  mine.  It 
is  no  longer  possible  to  conceal  the  fact.  I  now  frankly 
confess  that  having  posed  all  these  years  as  a  celibate,  I 
have,  for  a  quarter  of  a  century,  been  happily  wedded  to 
a  daughter  of  this  church,  the  gracious  daughter  of  a 
gracious  mother!  Therefore,  I  pay  such  respects  to  my 
new  father-in-law  as  is  due  to  one  who  has  so  recently 
married  into  the  family,  but  my  real  tribute  of  gratitude 
and  respect  I  reserve  to  lay  at  the  feet  of  my  blessed  and 
benignant  one-hundred-year-old  mother-in-law. 

Having  these  filial  relations,  I  consider  it  a  peculiar 
privilege  that  I  am  permitted,  as  presiding  officer  of  the 
Presbytery  of  New  York,  for  the  time  being,  to  voice 
the  congratulations  of  her  one  hundred  and  eighty  Pres- 


194  Centennial  CelclJtation  of  tht 

byterian  ministers,  and  her  more  than  thirty  thousand 
Presbyterian  people. 

Adequately  to  voiee  those  congratulations  would  re- 
quire the  gift  of  tongues,  for  on  each  Lord's  Day,  under 
the  auspices  of  the  Presbytery  of  New  York,  the  gospel 
is  proclaimed  to  Presbyterian  congregations,  not  only  in 
English  and  French  and  German,  but  in  Italian  and  Bo- 
hemian and  Chinese,  for  the  new  world  greets  the  old 
world  thronging  all  its  streets. 

The  Presbytery  of  New  York  is  the  successor  of  the 
Presbytery  which  installed  Dr.  Romeyn,  when  he  came 
down  from  Schenectady.  It  installed  him  in  April,  1809. 
Meanwhile  that  Presbytery  has  become  far  less  extensive 
and  far  more  intensive.  Then,  it  included  quite  a  large 
section  of  New  Jersey  and  of  Long  Island  and  east  of 
the  Hudson  a  region  extending  almost  halfway  to  Al- 
bany. Now,  it  is  restricted  to  the  boroughs  of  Manhattan 
and  The  Bronx  and  Richmond,  but  within  those  bounda- 
ries it  includes  about  seventy  churches  and  chapels  and 
missions,  not  one  of  which  has  failed  to  feel  the  throb 
of  this  church's  corporate  life,  and  to  be  quickened  by  it. 

We  rejoice  in  your  past.  We  glory  in  the  achieve- 
ments of  this  church  and  count  them  as  in  a  certain  sense 
our  own.  But  I  am  not  going  to  indulge  in  compliments, 
either  to  this  church  or  to  her  pastor.  Probably  you  have 
had  as  many  compliments  during  the  last  few  days  as  are 
good  for  you.  I  desire  rather  to  say  that  we  shall  look 
to  this  church  for  leadership  in  the  coming  days,  for  there 
are  serious  days  before  us.  The  City  of  New  York  pre- 
sents to  the  church  of  New  York  an  aspect  that  is  at  once 
inspiring  and  appalling.  Great  perils  confront  us ;  great 
opportunities  are  beckoning  us.  We  are  feeling  the  thrust 
of  forces  which  our  fathers  never  dreamed  of.  We  need 
to  cast  ourselves  afresh  on  the  merit  and  mercy  of  our 
Saviour  and  upon  the  strong  arm  of  our  God  and  in  that 
strength  to  go  forward.  We  need  a  broader  vision.  We 
need  a  keener  sympathy  with  Christ.    We  need  a  larger. 


jrift[)  auenue  pre0tipterian  Cj)urcJ)         195 

fuller,  stronger,  more  triumphant  faith  in  the  God  of  our 
fathers — 

"Our  fathers'  God,  from  out  whose  hand, 
The  centuries  fall  Uke  grains  of  sand !" 

The  closing  address  was  by  Rev.  Francis  L.  Patton, 
D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  President  of  Princeton  Theological  Semi- 
nary, who  spoke,  in  substance,  as  follows : 

It  is  a  great  pleasure  and  a  great  privilege  to  me  to  be 
here  to-night,  and  both  the  privilege  and  the  pleasure  are 
greatly  enhanced  by  the  opportunity  that  is  afforded  me 
of  speaking.  Dr.  Stevenson  has,  I  think  somewhat  with- 
out warrant,  intimated  that  my  speech  is  prepared.  I 
think  I  ought  to  say,  however,  that  prepared  or  not,  it  is 
to  be  given  under  the  strict  delimitation  of  territory  in 
respect  to  which  I  received  very  definite  instruction. 
What  I  have  to  say  will,  so  far  as  within  me  lies,  be 
within  the  limit  of  the  inhospitable  boundaries  that  were 
assigned  me. 

I  have  always  regarded  the  dinner  party  as  the  bright 
and  sunny  flower  of  our  social  civilization,  but  I  am  in- 
clined to  think  that  it  must  divide  the  honors  hereafter 
at  least  with  the  afternoon  tea  and  the  church  sociable. 
I  have  always  had  an  idea  as  to  what  the  principle  should 
be  that  should  underlie  and  be  the  controlling  element  in 
the  making  of  a  speech  at  such  functions.  This  principle 
has  been  violated,  in  my  judgment,  by  the  speeches  that 
have  been  delivered  to-night.  I  shall  endeavor  to  adhere 
strictly  to  what  I  regard  as  the  true  formula  of  speeches 
of  this  nature;  that  formula  being  three  drops  of  pure 
thought  diluted  with  two  ounces  of  distilled  rhetoric. 

Of  course,  I  realize  that  I  am  here,  not  by  virtue  of  any 
personal  right  to  be  here,  but  I  am  here  in  a  representa- 
tive capacity,  and  yet,  if  I  feel  a  certain  sense  of  personal 
relationship  to  this  meeting,  aside  from  my  representative 
position,  you  must  take  the  entire  blame  to  yourselves, 
and  explain  it  on  the  ground  of  your  kindness  to  me. 


196  Centennial  Celeliration  of  tfte 

It  is  a  long  time  since  I  sat  for  the  first  time  in  the 
pulpit  of  the  Fifth  Avenue  Church.  Of  course,  in  the 
early  days,  when  I  was  in  the  habit  of  preaching  in  the 
Fifth  Avenue  Church,  my  preaching  was  in  the  summer- 
time, when  everybody  belonging  to  the  church  was  away, 
but  I  have  since  then  procured  for  myself  a  good  seat, 
and  I  am  allowed  to  come  in  occasionally  in  the  winter- 
time. I  see  before  me  faces  (or  I  would  see  if  I  were 
not  subject  to  suffering  from  defective  vision)  that  are 
very  familiar  to  me. 

Now,  it  is  to  me  a  matter  of  very  great  gratification 
that  in  the  cathedralizing  processes  that  have  been  going 
on  during  the  past  two  or  three  years  I  have  sustained 
to  you  the  relation  of  canon  residentiary  during  the  period 
of  a  month,  and,  what  is  more  surprising  still,  I  have 
the  prospect  of  a  renewed  incumbency  during  the  coming 
year.  I  make  that  remark,  however,  coupled  with  the 
further  remark  that  I  am  fully  aware  of  the  unwritten 
law  with  respect  to  "third  terms,"  and  will  govern  myself 
accordingly. 

It  has  occurred  to  me  more  than  once,  and  long  before 
this  church  entered  upon  this  sort  of  work,  that  the  par- 
ticular work  to  which  I  refer  is  a  work  that  ought  to  be 
done,  and  that  there  ought  to  be  one  great  church  with 
this  cathedralizing  tendency  in  every  great  city,  and  that 
there  is  no  denomination  so  well  fitted  to  do  this  work  as 
the  denomination  to  which  we  have  the  honor  to  belong ; 
for  it  seems  to  me  that  there  are  three  things  at  least  that 
ought  to  be  done  by  those  churches  that  have  the  capacity 
for  doing  it.  There  is,  of  course,  the  great  congregation 
of  families,  who  worship  on  Sunday  morning  in  the 
church,  who  wish,  and  very  properly  wish,  to  hear  their 
own  minister — and  to  hear  nobody  else — so  his  ministra- 
tion will  be  directed  very  largely  by  the  exigencies  that 
are  known  to  him,  as  they  are  known  to  nobody  else,  as 
they  emerge  in  the  lives  of  those  committed  to  his  charge. 
It  is  a  very  well  understood  thing — and  I  fully  appreciate 


jFiftI)  atienue  presfiptetian  Cfjutcj)         19/ 

the  feeling  on  the  part  of  those  who  entertain  this  feeling 
— that  the  Sunday  morning  sermon  is  no  occasion  for  the 
exploiting  of  recent  heresy,  or  the  discussion  of  minute 
points  in  metaphysics  or  history  or  theology,  even  though 
it  be  true  that  you  have  had  four  pastors  who  have  been 
professors  of  theology,  and  that  your  present  pastor  is 
himself  a  learned  professor  of  church  history ;  but  at  the 
same  time  there  are,  outside  of  the  congregation,  and  per- 
haps there  may  be  some  inside — but  there  are,  in  a  great 
city  like  this,  people  belonging  to  all  the  churches  to  whom 
questions  of  interest  appeal,  and  in  respect  to  whom  it 
can  be  said,  I  think,  that  it  would  be  an  interesting  thing 
to  hear  some  of  these  issues  in  modern  thought,  as  they 
bear  upon  the  speculative  life,  as  well  as  the  Christian 
life,  to  have  these  things  discussed.  Then  there  is  a  large 
class  of  people  who  do  not  belong  to  the  church,  and  of 
whom  it  can  be  said  that  it  is  a  matter  of  great  moment 
that  they  should  be  brought  into  relationship  with  the 
church.  Therefore,  when  that  evening  service  is  devoted 
to  specifically  evangelistic  work,  it  seems  to  me  that,  for 
a  part  of  the  year  at  least,  you  have  distributed  the  work 
of  the  church  as  well  as  it  could  be  very  well  distributed 
in  the  three  respects  to  which  I  have  referred.  And  I  do 
not  hesitate  to  say  that  with  the  multifarious  duties  with 
which  every  minister  is  charged,  it  is  simply  asking  the 
impossible  to  ask  any  one  man  to  do  all  this  work. 

Now  I  think  I  know  something  about  the  difficulties  of 
preaching.  I  think  that  any  man  who  has  been  preaching 
forty  years  knows  something  about  the  difficulties  of 
preaching.  And  I  have  sometimes  thought  that  the  peo- 
ple do  not;  that  is,  I  mean,  a  great  many.  In  that  re- 
spect, perhaps,  I  cannot  see  things  from  their  point  of 
view,  but,  as  I  see  them,  it  seems  to  me  as  though  preach- 
ing were  never  so  difficult  as  it  is  to-day.  The  tact,  the 
insight,  the  breadth  of  horizon,  the  variety  of  knowledge, 
the  charm  of  expression,  the  subtlety  of  thought  that  an 
ordinary  congregation  expect  and  have,  in  a  great  church 


198  Centennial  Celebration  of  tfte 

every  Sunday  morning,  is  something  of  which  I  venture 
to  say  the  fathers  knew  Httle  or  nothing,  comparatively. 

I  say  that  I  can  imderstand  the  difficulty  under  which 
the  minister  of  to-day  is  laboring.  I  do  not  experience 
those  difficulties.  I  know  preaching  is  easy  to  me.  But 
everybody  is  not  like  me.  I  will  tell  you  why  it  is  easy 
for  me.  The  minister  of  a  congregation  cuts  out  his 
sermon  on  Thursday,  let  us  say;  pastes  it  together  on 
Friday,  fixes  it  up  on  Saturday,  and  rain  or  shine,  no 
matter  what  happens,  has  to  deliver  the  goods  on  Sunday 
morning. 

Now,  it  is  quite  otherwise  with  me.  I  have  no  obliga- 
tions of  that  sort.  When  I  get  ready  to  preach  a  sermon, 
I  simply  send  notice,  put  it  in  the  paper,  serve  notice  on 
the  congregation  that  that  sermon  is  ready,  and  that  they 
will  please  come  to-morrow  morning  and  be  fitted.  And 
when  they  come,  why,  I  alter  the  sermon,  after  I  have 
tried  it  on  them ;  fix  up  the  sleeve,  take  it  up  in  the  collar, 
take  a  little  off  the  length  (they  generally  ask  that). 
When  I  have  done  that  four  or  five  times,  the  sermon  is 
a  fairly  good  sermon,  and  I  go  around  and  preach  it,  and 
by  the  time  I  have  preached  it  fifty  times,  you  can  wake 
me  up  in  the  night  and  I  can  deliver  it.  That  is  the  way 
to  preach.  But  the  pastor  has  no  sinecure  now,  as  I 
say. 

I  realize  I  am  here  to-night  in  my  representative  ca- 
pacity, and  I  bring  you  the  very  cordial  greetings  of  the 
Princeton  Theological  Seminary,  and  I  bring  with  those 
greetings  the  very  grateful  recognition  of  the  large  place 
that  Princeton  Seminary  has  had  in  the  thought  of  the 
Fifth  Avenue  Church,  of  the  great  help  the  Fifth  Avenue 
Church  has  been  to  the  Princeton  Seminary.  These  rela- 
tions, of  course,  as  you  have  already  heard,  have  been 
very  close  and  very  intimate.  You  are  one  hundred  years 
old.  Princeton  Seminary  is  ninety-seven  years  old.  Dur- 
ing all  the  ninety-seven  years  of  her  history  she  has  been 
in  very  close  touch  with  the  Fifth  Avenue  Church.    We 


jfiftt)  avienue  pre06ptenan  Cl)urcft         199 

have  given  you  two  ministers  out  of  our  faculty.  We 
sent  to  you  Dr.  James  W.  Alexander,  the  prince  of 
preachers,  a  distinguished  man  in  a  distinguished  family, 
and  we  sent  to  you  later  on  Dr.  Purves,  great  as  a  preach- 
er, great  also  as  a  New  Testament  scholar;  equally  dis- 
tinguished in  both  spheres. 

We  have  to-day  in  the  directorate  of  Princeton  Semi- 
nary two  sons  of  the  Fifth  Avenue  Church,  Dr.  William 
Irwin  and  Dr.  Maitland  Alexander.  We  had,  as  long 
as  he  lived,  a  devoted  trustee  in  Mr.  Sinclair.  We  have 
in  the  directorship  of  Princeton  Seminary  to-day  three 
members  of  this  church,  three  connected  with  this  church, 
and  Dr.  Stevenson,  the  minister,  for  we  always  regard 
the  minister  of  the  Fifth  Avenue  Church  as  ex-officio  a 
member  of  Princeton  Seminary;  and  we  tried  to  get  one 
of  the  sons  of  this  church  to  take  a  professorship  at 
Princeton  Seminary.  We  labored  hard,  and  we  hoped 
for  the  best;  but  after  laboring  as  long  as  we  thought  it 
was  kind  to  him  to  labor,  we  desisted,  and  Dr.  Maitland 
Alexander  declined  our  call. 

My  heart  regrets,  but  my  reason  cannot  disapprove, 
when  I  remember  the  splendid  work  which  he  is  doing 
in  Pittsburg,  and  possibly  (I  do  not  know;  he  did  not  say 
this  to  me)  I  have  sometimes  thought  that  it  may  be  that 
his  mind  went  back  to  his  uncle,  who  did  come  back  from 
a  pastorate  to  a  professorship,  and  then  went  back  to 
the  pastorate.  This  was  his  feeling,  I  dare  say,  and  if 
that  was  the  feeling,  I  could  not  gainsay  it,  for,  after  all, 
the  pulpit  is  "the  minister's  throne,"  and  there  is  no  place 
where  a  man  can  do  so  much  good,  if  he  can  preach,  as  in 
the  pulpit.  Dr.  Alexander  is  doing  that  great  work  in 
Pittsburg. 

Now,  of  course,  as  we  had  communicated  to  you  of  our 
spiritual  things,  it  was  but  meet  that  you  should  com- 
municate to  us  of  your  carnal  things,  and  you  have  done 
so,  and  with  great  liberality.  I  do  not  pretend  to  know 
just  how  all  the  endowments  of  Princeton  Seminary  came, 


200  Centennial  Celebration  of  tfte 

but  I  will  say  this,  that  if  you  should  take  out  of  the  treas- 
ury of  the  Princeton  Seminary  all  the  money  that  came 
from  the  First  Church  through  Mr.  Lenox  and  Mrs. 
Winthrop,  and  all  the  money  that  came  from  the  Fifth 
Avenue  Church  from  Messrs.  R.  L.  and  A,  Stuart  and 
others,  it  would  be  a  very  meager  endowment  left. 

Now,  I  want  to  say  that  I  appreciate  everything  that 
has  been  said  here  to-night,  with  respect  to  the  splendid 
work  which  this  church  has  done,  not  only  in  evangelism, 
but  also  in  the  position  she  has  taken  of  steadfast  devo- 
tion to  sound  doctrine.  I  do  not  mean  by  sound  doctrine 
all  the  shibboleths  that  have  passed  for  such  in  the  doc- 
trinal discussions  of  a  hundred  years;  for  one  hundred 
years  ago,  and  even  to  a  date  well  nigh  within  the  borders 
of  the  present  century,  we  were  ready  for  controversy 
on  almost  anything,  and  it  seems  to  me  that  a  very  great 
change  has  come  over  the  spirit  of  our  dream. 

Then,  so  it  was  a  controversy,  we  did  not  care.  Now, 
no  matter  what  the  controversy  is,  and  how  big  a  dis- 
cussion, we  do  not  seem  to  care,  and  indifference  is  be- 
ginning to  take  the  place  of  that  lively  interest  in  theology 
that  put  every  one  in  the  attitude  of  one  spoiling  for  a 
fight. 

Now,  I  am  frank  to  say  that  the  time  never  existed 
when  the  issues  before  the  church,  issues  that  underlie  all 
Christianity,  not  talking  about  Presbyterians,  not  talking 
about  Episcopalians,  not  even  talking  about  the  differences 
that  separate  the  Roman  Catholic  from  the  Protestant 
Church — I  am  saying  that  the  issues  are  issues  that  un- 
derlie our  spiritual  life ;  that  this  Christmas  I  am  quite 
willing  to  stake  the  whole  controversy  upon  this  single 
question  as  to  whether  we  are  here  under  the  gospel  of 
Christ,  or  whether  we  have  simply  a  gospel  of  good  na- 
ture ;  whether  the  mystery  of  the  incarnation  is  to  be  re- 
solved into  the  myth  of  Santa  Claus !  Whether  we  im- 
peach supreme  divinity  or  not,  it  would  be  besmirching 
the  real  humanity.    Three  hundred  years  ago,  and  a  little 


jFiftI)  at)enue  Pte0tiptetian  Ct)utcJ)  201 

less,  John  Milton  stated  the  whole  issue  in  a  wonderful 
line,  "Of  wedded  maid  and  virgin  mother  born,"  and  to 
dispute  either  premise  in  that  sentence  is  to  destroy  the 
incarnation. 

So  I  congratulate  you  as  you  stand  upon  the  threshold 
of  another  century  of  the  ecclesiastical  life.  And  I  trust 
that  since  Jesus  Christ  is  the  same  yesterday,  to-day,  and 
forever,  this  church,  for  one  hundred  years  to  come,  will 
be  found  bearing  the  same  testimony  that  it  has  been 
bearing  these  one  hundred  years  agone,  in  the  faith  which 
was  once  for  all  delivered  to  the  saints ! 


On  Wednesday  evening,  in  the  Lecture  Room,  the  clo- 
sing exercises  of  the  celebration  were  held,  consisting  of 
singing  and  prayer,  with  brief  addresses  by  two  sons 
of  the  church  whO'  have  gone  into  the  ministry.  "The 
Church  and  the  Winning  of  Souls"  was  the  topic  given 
to  Rev.  Maitland  Alexander,  D.  D.,  of  Pittsburg,  Pa. 
"The  Church  and  the  Winning  of  Souls" 

Rev.  Maitland  Alexandet?,  D.  D. 

I  am  sure  you  all  recognize  the  fact  there  are  certain 
things  in  life  which  make  an  indelible  impression  on  the 
individi^al  life;  that  there  are  many  things  that  are  ab- 
sorbed into  a  man's  life,  rather  than  talked  in,  and  that 
there  are  certain  demonstrations  of  power  which  he  sees 
from  time  to  time,  which  leave  their  effect,  which  effect 
he  never  gets  over,  no  matter  where  he  goes  or  what  he 
does.  It  is  very  rarely  that  a  man  has  an  opportunity, 
such  as  that  just  afforded  me  here  this  evening,  of  coming 
back  under  the  influence  of  a  church  that  has  done  so 
much  for  him,  to  express  in  a  very  feeble  way  how  great 
that  debt  is. 

We  talk  a  great  deal  to-day  about  what  we  could 
do  with  society  if  the  home  could  be  made  ideal ;  and  I 
believe  that  the  same  results  which  are  accomplished  on 
the  young  life  in  a  good  home  are  accomplished  on  the: 


202  Centennial  Celelitation  of  tlje 

young  life  in  a  good  church.  And  as  I  have  gone  out 
from  the  walls  of  this  church,  and  entered  upon  my  own 
responsibilities  and  my  own  duties,  and  my  own  cares  in 
the  various  work  to  which  I  have  been  called,  I  can  say 
with  the  greatest  honesty,  and  with  the  deepest  sincerity, 
that  the  influence  of  my  training  in  this  church  in  every 
way  has  been  to  me  an  ideal  which  I  have  tried  to  live 
up  to  and  follow,  taking  my  inspiration  from  those  things 
which  have  made  this  church  great. 

Some  men,  when  they  go  away  and  come  to  their  own 
work,  make  comparisons  between  their  church  and  the 
church  in  which  they  have  been  reared;  and  in  many  in- 
stances I  think  men  say  that  their  work  and  the  way  they 
do  their  work  is  better  than  the  way  in  which  it  was  done 
in  their  old  home  church. 

It  has  been  always  a  source  of  great  gratification  to  me 
that  I  could  look  back  to  this  church  that  carried  out  a 
policy,  that  presented  a  gospel,  and  that  was  characterized 
by  an  efficiency  which  would  always  be  to  me  the  summit 
of  my  ambition,  rather  than  something  that  I  might  im- 
prove upon,  and  when  I  think  back,  as  I  often  do,  to  the 
days  when  I  went  here  to  church,  under  the  ministry  of 
Dr.  Hall,  I  gained  from  him  the  things  that  have  always 
been  to  me  the  best  equipment  that  I  have  ever  had  of 
any  kind. 

When  I  realize  how  much  inspiration  comes  to  me  to- 
day from  the  breadth  of  the  vision  of  this  church,  and 
its  splendid  conception  of  what  it  is  called  to  do;  when 
I  think  about  the  influence  of  its  pulpit  and  the  great  re- 
sults achieved  in  the  men  that  have  served  as  its  min- 
isters; in  conversions  that  have  resulted  from  that  min- 
istry, and,  above  all,  in  the  splendid  conservative  con- 
struction of  character  which  has  been  made  possible 
through  its  ministry ;  I  am  glad  and  proud  that  I  can  look 
back  and  say  to  myself  that  I  was  trained  in  this  church, 
that  I  was  received  into  its  membership,  that  I  shared  in 
its  work,  and,  above  all,  that  I  sat  under  the  instruction 


jFift!)  avenue  pre0tjptetian  CI)Utc|)         203 

of  a  man  like  Dr.  Hall,  who,  to  me,  has  ever  been  the 
epitome  of  strength  and  power  and  grace  and  effective- 
ness in  the  American  pulpit. 

I  have  been  assigned  the  subject,  "The  Church  and  the 
Winning  of  Souls,"  and  I  feel  in  the  few  minutes  I  have 
to  stay  to-night  I  would  like  to  speak  of  that  subject  as 
illustrating  the  way  in  which  this  church  has  ever  been 
a  soul-winning  church.  For  my  own  part,  I  believe  that 
a  church  can  only  carry  out  that  great  and  primary  work 
which  has  been  committed  to  it,  through  the  effective 
presentation  of  the  gospel  of  Jesus  Christ  from  its  pulpit, 
and  I  think  that  the  moment  that  the  pulpit  gives  way 
to  anything  else,  in  the  form  of  organized  work,  or  any 
other  things,  it  weakens  its  powers  and  it  weakens  its 
efficiency  in  the  conversion  of  men. 

If  you  will  pardon  just  a  word,  I  do  not  believe  that 
any  one  who  ever  listened  to  some  of  the  sermons  that 
were  preached  in  this  church  when  I  attended  it  could 
ever  doubt  for  a  moment  that  that  kind  of  preaching  of 
that  kind  of  truth,  and  that  kind  of  presentation,  is  the 
best  and  most  efficient  method  in  the  world  of  winning 
men  to  Jesus  Christ. 

I  do  not  doubt  that  some  of  you  who  are  listening  to 
me  here  could  remember  the  sermons  I  have  thought  of 
from  time  to  time,  that  I  have  heard  preached  here,  the 
text  and  analysis  of  which  have  never  left  me.  When 
Dr.  Hall  preached  on  themes  like  this,  there  was  no  man 
or  woman  that  ever  left  that  church  without  having 
impressed  upon  them  the  great  fundamental  truths  by 
which  men  were  made  to  see  Jesus  Christ  and  compelled 
to  ally  themselves  to  him  there,  forever,  by  reason  of  the 
constraining  power  of  the  Christ.  I  do  not  ever  remem- 
ber in  my  life  hearing  Dr.  Hall  preach  a  sermon  on  what 
we  call  to-day  modem  church  work.  I  do  not  know 
whether  any  of  you  ever  heard  him  do  it.  I  do  not  think 
I  ever  did,  but  I  realize  this  fact  as  I  never  realized  it  be- 
fore, and  I  have  demonstrated  it  again  and  again  to  my 


204  Centennial  Celefiration  of  ttt 

own  satisfaction,  that  when  a  man  preaches  the  gospel  of 
Christ  to  men,  earnestly,  efficiently,  sympathetically,  but 
honestly,  there  is  not  any  need  to  preach  these  other 
things.  They  follow  in  the  train  of  these  great  funda- 
mental things  that  belong  to  the  Kingdom,  and  so  I  say 
you  may  have  everything  in  the  world  in  connection  with 
your  church,  and  every  kind  of  organization  (the  church 
which  I  serve  to-day  I  suppose  is  thoroughly  organized 
along  the  lines  of  what  we  might  call  institutional  church 
work,  and  has  a  great  cosmopolitan  crowd  that  is  allied 
to  it ;  men  of  every  grade,  men  of  every  strata  of  educa- 
tion, men  of  every  social  position,  a  mixed  multitude,  and 
we  try  to  provide  for  them  everything  that  we  can  pro- 
vide to  bring  them  into  the  fellowship  and  interest  of  the 
church)  ;  but  you  can  have  every  sort  of  organization  in 
the  world,  and  they  will  pass  it  by  and  never  touch  it,  but 
the  one  thing  that  draws  men,  that  produces  (if  you 
choose  to  call  it)  a  crowd,  is  the  presentation  of  the  sim- 
ple gospel  of  Christ  in  its  fundamental  character,  and 
when  you  preach  it,  men  come  to  hear  it,  and  they  do  not 
come  for  any  other  thing  that  I  know  of  in  heaven  and 
in  earth. 

This  church  has  been  characterized  by  that  preaching, 
and  is  characterized  by  that  kind  of  preaching  to-day.  It 
has  always  been.  It  is  the  one  thing  that  this  church  has 
stood  for  more  than  any  other,  namely,  the  power  of  its 
pulpit,  and  for  the  power  of  that  pulpit  I  stand  here  to- 
night, and  if  I  was  to  bear  my  testimony  to  the  efficiency 
of  this  church,  it  would  be  this :  I  have  tried  with  all  my 
might  to  carry  out  the  things  committed  to  me  and  laid 
to  my  charge  again  and  again  as  a  Christian  man  and  a 
Christian  minister  by  him  under  whose  pastorate  I  live, 
and  I  bear  witness  to-day  that  any  results  that  have  ever 
come  from  any  ministry  that  I  may  have  had  to  the  glory 
of  God  have  come  through  the  application  of  these  great 
fundamental  instructions.  So  I  stand  to-day,  to  witness 
for  this  thing,  and  to  say  to  you  here  to-night,  that  if  this 


jfiftj)  auenue  pregfiptetian  C!)urc|)         205 

church  shall  proceed  along  these  lines,  as  I  hope  and  pray 
it  may,  that  I  believe  it  holds  the  secret  to  the  great 
evangelical  movement  by  which  the  world  is  to  be  re- 
deemed. 

And  one  thing  more:  I  believe  that  this  church  has 
been  characterized  in  its  preaching  by  another 'thing  which 
makes  for  the  salvation  of  men  through  the  individual 
work  of  others ;  namely,  the  upbuilding  of  the  spiritual 
life  of  Christians,  to  such  an  extent  that  the  power  of  that 
spiritual  life  constrains  them  to  do  the  things  for  Qirist's 
sake  that  they  will  not  do  for  any  other  reason  in  the 
world.  How  shall  we  make  men,  individual  men,  lay- 
men and  women,  winners  of  the  souls  of  other  men? 
Shall  we  urge  upon  them  the  necessity  of  going  out  and 
bringing  in  those  that  are  without  the  church?  Well, 
you  may  urge,  but  it  will  do  very  little  good.  Shall  we 
talk  about  Christian  activities  and  the  development  of  our 
Christian  forces?  You  may,  but  I  doubt  if  it  makes  a 
lasting  impression.  I  believe  the  only  way  that  that  can 
be  done  is  by  laying  upon  the  consciences  of  men  their 
relationship  to  God,  and  when  that  relationship  by  the 
Holy  Spirit  has  been  made  a  vital  relationship,  there 
will  be  no  need  any  longer  to  talk  about  the  activi- 
ties of  the  various  church  agencies  or  the  necessity 
for  doing  personal  work  for  Christ's  sake,  because, 
when  a  man  stands  in  that  relation  to  the  Lord  Jesus 
Christ  that  the  early  disciples  stood  to  him ;  when  they 
have  come  and  seen  the  things  which  he  has  provided 
for  their  spiritual  growth ;  when  they  have  entered  into 
that  mystical  fellowship  with  him  that  comes  from  the 
surrender  of  heart  and  life  to  him,  there  will  be  no  need 
for  any  more  of  that  kind  of  preaching,  but,  like  Andrew 
and  Philip  and  the  other  disciples,  they  will  be  bringing 
those  to  see  him  whom  they  have  come  to  know,  and, 
knowing  aright,  have  life  eternal  through  him. 

Might  I  wish  this  church  Godspeed  in  the  years  that 
are  to  come;  that  the  same  measure  of  blessings  may 


2o6  Centennial  CelelJtation  of  tfje 

come  to  you  in  the  future  that  has  crowned  this  church 
in  the  past.  And  may  I  say  to  you  here  to-night,  as  I  say 
sometimes  to  my  own  people,  that  this  is  the  kind  of  a 
church  that  ought  to  send  its  sons  into  the  ministry,  and 
this  is  the  kind  of  a  church  that  furnishes  the  atmosphere 
for  ministers  who  will  be  acceptable  to  the  churches  whom 
they  serve,  and  for  the  greater  work,  the  greatest  work 
of  the  world,  is  the  winning  of  souls,  and  the  greatest 
work  in  the  winning  of  souls  for  this  church  might  be  in 
the  presentation  of  many  men  given,  sent  forth  with  its 
inspiration  and  blessed  with  the  experiences  that  every 
member  of  this  church  enjoys. 


"The  Church  and  the  Purification  of  Society" 

Rev.  Henry  S.  Coffin,  D.  D. 

I  am  sure  I  can  say  amen  to  every  word  that  Dr.  Alex- 
ander has  said,  and  said  so  eloquently  here,  to-night.  I 
was  thinking,  as  I  looked  forward  to  this  meeting,  what 
were  the  things  that  I  could  recall  for  which  I  was  most 
indebted  to  this  church,  and  when  I  began  to  think  of 
them,  I  simply  could  never  finish  the  list,  but  it  seems  to 
me  that  four  things  stood  out  with  especial  clearness. 

The  first  was  that  here  I  had  the  great  privilege  of 
being  reared  and  trained  under  a  ministry  that  was  not 
only  persuasive,  as  Dr.  Alexander  has  said,  but  was  also 
in  the  truest  sense  of  the  word  educational ;  how  true  this 
is  those  of  us  who  remember  Dr.  Hall  well  know.  Dr. 
Hall  thought  he  had  never  even  properly  started  a  ser- 
mon until  he  had  not  only  given  us  the  text,  but  had  ex- 
plained the  context,  that  we  might  enter  into  the  man's 
mind  and  might  know  the  situation  of  the  hearer.  So 
that  our  knowledge  of  the  Bible  grew  from  Stmday  to 
Sunday,  as  we  came  and  listened  to  what  he  had  to  say. 

I  remembered  to-night,  as  I  came  along  here,  how  fre- 
quently Dr.  Hall,  in  one  of  his  splendid  sermons,  would 
stop  and  say,  "In  order  that  I  may  make  this  clear  to  the 


jFiftf)  atjenue  ptegftpterian  Cfjurcj)         207 

youngest  hearers  here,  let  me  use  an  illustration."  One 
time  I  recall  he  quoted  the  line,  "See  that  you  walk  cir- 
cumspectly." It  occurred  to  me  to-night  as  I  came  along. 
He  said,  "You  boys  and  girls  know  how,  when  ice  is 
forming  on  the  sidewalk  in  the  cold  weather,  when  you 
go  along,  you  have  to  see  where  you  are  putting  your  feet, 
lest  you  slip.  Now,  that  is  exactly  what  the  apostle  meant 
when  he  said,  'See  that  you  walk  circumspectly.'  "  That 
has  stuck  in  my  mind  until  this  time. 

In  the  second  place,  we  had  in  this  congregation  a 
magnificent  training  school  for  Christian  service.  I  can- 
not be  too  grateful  for  the  lessons  given  me  in  the  Young 
People's  Association  in  this  church.  I  very  well  remem- 
ber when,  as  a  young  boy  of  fourteen,  I  was  asked  to  take 
part  in  a  meeting  which  was  to  be  led  by  one  of  your 
present  leaders,  Mr.  Gillies,  and  I  demurred;  I  did  not 
know  what  I  should  say  and  how  I  should  say  it,  and 
one  of  those  to  whom  I  owe  personally  a  large  debt  of 
gratitude,  and  who  is  here  present  to-night,  Mrs.  Henry 
M.  Alexander,  took  me  to  her  home  and  had  me  stand 
up  at  one  end  of  her  library,  and  say  over  to  her  what  I 
intended  to  say  the  following  Sunday  morning.  That 
was  my  first  lesson  in  homiletics,  and  if  I  have  any  value 
in  teaching  homiletics  to-day,  I  owe  it  in  no  small  part 
to  the  lessons  given  me  in  this  church. 

In  the  third  place,  we  who  had  our  minds  turned  at  all 
toward  the  ministry  had  incarnated  before  us  in  Dr.  John 
Hall,  as  Dr.  Alexander  has  just  said,  the  beau  ideal  of  all 
we  wanted  to  be.  I  remember  reading  a  few  weeks  ago, 
in  one  of  James  Russell  Lowell's  letters,  written  as  a 
young  fellow  when  he  was  a  student  at  a  law  school  in 
Cambridge,  the  statement  that  he  had  gotten  sick  of  the 
study  of  law,  and  determined  to  stop  it  and  go  into  the 
study  of  something  else,  and  he  passed  by  the  court- 
house in  Boston  one  day,  went  in  and  heard  Daniel  Web- 
ster speaking,  and  this  was  the  entry  he  made  in  his 
journal,  "I  had  not  been  there  above  half  an  hour  before 


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I  determined  to  go  back  to  my  books,  and  study  as  hard 
as  I  could."    It  was  a  calling  incarnated  in  a  devotee  that 
cast  its  spell  over  him.     Sometimes,  as  I  go  about  trying 
to  do  my  work  in  this  city  to-day,  I  simply  think  with 
amazement  of  Dr.  John  Hall,  the  amount  of  work  that 
he  carried  on  single-handed  in  this  place,  the  number  of 
Boards  he  served,  the  number  of  prominent  institutions 
he  represented,  the  work  outside,  simply  numberless  calls 
upon  his  time  and  attention ;  and  then  to  think  how  week 
by  week  he  went  from  the  one  end  of  Manhattan  Island 
to  another,  calling  on  all  the  members  of  his  congregation, 
announcing  to  you,  as  you  remember  so  well,  that  on 
Tuesday  next,  God  willing,  he  would  call  on  all  of  his 
families  in  East  Thirty-seventh  Street,  for  instance.    You 
remember  how  persistent  a  ministry  that  was.     How  he 
did  it,  and  kept  the  pulpit  of  this  church  the  blessing  and 
power  it  was,  is  to  me  simply  a  miracle,  nothing  less. 
Then  I  think  also  how  embodied  in  him  we  had  the  dig- 
nity of  the  ministry.     James  Russell  Lowell  said  some- 
where, "And  where  you  go,  men  shall  think  they  walk 
in  holy  cathedrals."     That  was  the  atmosphere,  as  you 
and  I  know,  that  Dr.  Hall  carried  with  him.    One  felt  the 
church  was  there  when  Dr.  Hall  was  there.     It  was  his 
presence.     And  then  one  thing  more :  we  were  meeting 
in  this  church  under  a  ministry,  as  Dr.  Alexander  said, 
where  personal  evangelization  was  kept  to  the  fore  all  the 
■  time.    How  well  I  remember  in  the  years  before,  as  each 
succeeding  communion  set  came,  Mr.  Fraser,  our  Sunday 
School  superintendent,  would  plead  with  us  boys  and  girls 
to  give  our  lives,  consecrate  them  to  the  cause  of  Jesus 
Christ,  and  you  remember  so  well  there,  at  the  Lord's 
Table,  how,  after  the  communion  had  been  served.  Dr. 
Hall  was  never  satisfied  until  he  had  turned  to  those 
young  people  in  the  gallery,  around  about,  and  made  an 
appeal  to  us.    We  had  seen  what  Christ's  followers  were 
doing,  we  had  heard  the  solemn  vows  of  dedication  and 
consecration  that  all  that  assembly  made  in  this  act.  Now, 


ififti)  auenue  preslipterian  Cturcf)         209 

were  we  going  to  place  our  lives  in  the  hands  of  Him 
whom  they  loved  ?  And  the  verses  he  used  to  use  at  the 
Communion  Table;  how  they  abide  in  my  memory  to- 
day. I  always  connect  one  verse  of  St.  Paul  with  Dr. 
Hall,  in  particular,  "Whether  we  live,  we  live  unto  the 
Lord,  and  whether  we  die,  we  die  unto  the  Lord.  Wheth- 
er, therefore,  we  live  or  die,  we  are  the  Lord's."  It  was 
the  inspiration  of  his  love;  it  was  the  contagion  of  his 
personality. 

Now  you  have  assigned  me  to-night  a  theme  which  I 
believe  first  was  assigned  to  one  who  is  far  better  fitted 
to  speak  on  it  than  I  am,  "The  Qiurch  and  the  Purifica- 
tion of  Society." 

The  God-head  is  to  be  brought  into  the  world  in  two 
ways.  Men  are  to  be  reached  from  the  inside  out,  and 
from  the  outside  in.  When  there  is  a  typhoid  epidemic, 
there  are  two  things  to  be  done;  first,  the  individual  pa- 
tients are  to  be  cared  for  one  by  one,  through  the  hospital 
nurse  and  doctor,  and  that  is  the  mission  of  the  church 
as  a  soul-saver;  but  there  is  something  further  to  be 
done.  There  is  an  investigation  to  be  made  into  the  drain- 
age system  of  the  city,  its  milk  supply  and  its  water  sup- 
ply are  to  be  tested,  and  if  possible  the  source  of  the 
disease  found  and  eradicated. 

The  city  of  humanity  is  sin-sick  and  selfishness-sick, 
and  there  are  two  things  for  the  church  of  Jesus  Christ 
to  do;  winning  individuals  one  by  one,  curing  their  mala- 
dies, and  placing  within  them  the  spirit  of  Jesus  Christ; 
but  that  is  but  one  part  of  the  church's  mission. 

The  church's  mission  is  to  transform  society  so  that 
there  shall  be  less  opportunity  for  sin,  less  contacts  of 
selfishness  upon  the  humble  life.  We  know  very  well  to 
have  a  patient  taken  under  medical  care,  and  then  put  out 
to  drink  the  contaminated  water  again  and  the  contami- 
nated milk,  might  be  only  to  cause  a  reinfection  by  the 
disease. 

Boys  and  girls  come  forward  to  the  Lord's  table  and 


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consecrate  themselves  to  Jesus  Christ,  and  are  told  that 
they  are  to  live  no  longer  unto  themselves,  but  unto  him ; 
like  the  son  of  man,  they  are  to  go  out  and  minister  their 
lives  in  the  spirit  of  sympathy  and  service.  They  go  out 
in  the  business  world,  and  what  this  business  world  is  to- 
day we  very  well  know.  The  business  world  of  to-day  is 
founded  upon  greed  first  of  all,  cutthroat  competition ;  in 
the  business  world  we  are  to  push  others  back,  and  push 
ourselves  forward,  and  in  the  second  place  in  the  business 
world  you  are  to  work  for  what  comes  to  you;  your 
profits,  your  wage,  whatever  that  might  be.  In  the  third 
place,  selfish  ownership ;  whatever  you  control  is  yours 
to  do  with  as  you  please,  provided  you  do  not  break  the 
somewhat  elastic  laws  of  society. 

A  boy  goes  forward  and  consecrates  himself  to  Jesus 
Christ  as  a  Christian.  He  goes  out  into  the  political  life 
of  to-day,  and  what  does  he  find?  He  finds  two  great 
parties  debating,  for  instance,  the  tariff  question ;  one 
party  advancing  the  cause  of  protection  on  the  ground 
that  it  is  to  the  best  interests  of  American  workingmen 
and  American  manufacturers;  the  other  party  possibly 
advancing  free  trade  for  the  same  reason ;  neither  party 
saying  one  word  about  what  is  to  the  advantage  of  the 
merchants  and  workingmen  of  other  countries.  The  in- 
dividual is  to  love  his  neighbor  as  himself,  but  we  have 
not  yet  got  to  the  place  where  we  hold  up  the  statement 
that  the  nations  shall  love  their  neighbors  as  themselves^ 
and  any  tariff  that  is  in  the  faintest  degree  a  Christian 
tariff  must  be  a  tariff  framed  with  regard  to  the  working- 
men  of  other  nations  as  truly  as  our  own. 

The  Bible  looks  upon  life  as  being  transformed  from 
two  points  of  view.  We  have  the  message  put  in  this 
way,  "You  must  be  born  again ;"  one  by  one,  that  is,  by  a 
personal  act  of  consecration  to  Jesus  Christ.  Yet  you 
must  be  born  again.  And  then  social  birth.  "I,  John,, 
saw  the  holy  city  coming  down  from  God  out  of  heaven, 
made  ready  as  a  bride  adorned  for  her  husband,"  and 


jfiftft  atienue  pre$liptenan  Cftutci)         211 

we  have  a  saying  that  if  the  holy  city  were  to  be  brought 
in  here  and  New  York  become  a  new  New  York,  we 
would  not  have  the  same  difficulty  with  the  children  of 
another  generation  that  we  have  had  with  the  children  of 
the  past  in  bringing  them  under  the  spell  of  the  spirit  of 
Jesus  Christ ;  and  so  the  church  of  Jesus  Christ  has  not 
only  its  message  for  the  individual,  but  it  has  its  message 
for  society. 

Business  must  not  stand  for  cutthroat  competition,  but 
for  co-operation  with  Jesus  Christ;  never  pushing  your 
neighbor  down,  but  working  with  him  and  for  brother- 
hood, working  for  the  joy  of  service. 

First  say,  "Thy  will  be  done,  my  Father,"  and  then, 
**Give  me  this  day  my  daily  bread ;"  and  instead  of  selfish 
ownership,  stewardship  for  the  whole  brotherhood  of 
God's  children,  of  all  that  comes  within  one's  control. 

The  nation  can  hold  up  the  ideal  service  just  as  truly 
as  any  individual,  and  political  parties  could  seek  votes 
on  the  basis  of  which  party  is  holding  up  the  business  of 
the  Kingdom;  which  party  promises  to  take  our  nation 
and  transform  it  into  the  mightiest  engine  to  bring  in 
the  kingdom  of  justice  and  kindness  and  faithfulness  in 
this  earth,  for  which  Jesus  Christ  laid  down  his  life.  It 
is  the  church's  duty  to-day  not  merely  to  hold  up  Jesus 
Christ  as  the  Saviour  of  the  individual,  but  to  hold  up  to 
the  nation  Christ's  own  greatness,  the  Kingdom  of  God, 
the  social  salvation  which  he  came  to  proclaim;  that  all 
men  collectively,  not  merely  individuals,  may  be  born 
again  of  the  life  of  love,  of  service,  and  of  brotherhood. 

The  characteristic  book  of  the  individualistic  type  of 
piety  is  "The  Pilgrim's  Progress,"  where  one  individual 
sets  out  from  the  city  of  destruction  and  goes  through 
all  its  perilous  journey,  until  at  last  he  finds  himself  safely 
in  the  celestial  city. 

The  characteristic  message  of  the  Kingdom  of  God  as 
Jesus  conceived  it  was  quite  different  from  that.  It  was 
that  this  city  of  destruction  should  itself  be  taken  and 


212  Centennial  Celebration  of  tjje 

transformed  by  the  communicating  of  the  Hfe  of  the  ce- 
lestial city,  until  there  was  a  celestial  city  at  both  ends 
of  the  line ;  the  celestial  city  below  duplicating  the  celes- 
tial city  above,  and  a  new  earth  no  less  than  a  new 
heaven. 

At  this  Christmas  season  you  and  I  remember  the  in- 
carnation in  one  life  of  the  man  Jesus,  but  that  was  not  a 
unique  event ;  Jesus  Christ  was  merely  to  be  the  first  bom 
among  the  brethren  and  his  was  the  duty  of  priority ;  in 
him  dwelt  all  the  fulness  of  the  Godhead  bodily ;  not  that 
he  might  possess  it  as  a  monopoly,  but  that  in  him  we 
might  be  made  free,  and  the  incarnation  to  which  we 
look  forward  to-day  is  the  social  incarnation,  when  God 
who  was  once  in  one  human  life  shall  be,  as  St.  Paul  puts 
it  in  his  remarks  of  the  fifteenth  of  the  first  Corinthians^ 
"When  God  shall  be  all  in  all."  And  so  the  message  I 
would  bring  to-night  is  this :  That  while  the  church  of  to- 
day must,  with  all  the  zeal  and  persuasiveness  of  the 
church  of  yesterday,  strive  to  bring  individuals  one  by 
one  to  Jesus  Christ,  it  must  simultaneously  proclaim  the 
social  evangel  of  Jesus  Christ,  the  gospel  of  justice,  the 
gospel  of  kindness  and  fidelity,  to  the  earth,  until  cor- 
porations are  no  longer  spoken  of  as  soulless,  because 
the  church  has  put  the  consciousness  of  soul  into  them; 
and  when  our  collective  activities  have  consciousnesses — 
our  nations  souls,  and  the  collective  activities  of  men,  no 
less  than  individuals,  consciousnesses,  then  will  the  eter- 
nal life  of  the  Father  be  manifested,  for  it  is  of  Christ 
Jesus,  our  Lord. 


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2  Five  thousand  Sabbaths  has  God's  holy  word, 
And  Gospel  Message  been  by  thousands  heard; 
To  thousands  more  has  Christian  service  given 
Help,  comfort,  healing,  with  sweet  hope  of  heaven. 

3  Shall  we  enjoy  what  others  richly  gave 
In  self-denial,  loving,  true  and  brave, 
And  to  ourselves  our  heritage  confine 

When  for  its  blessings  thousands  near  us  pine? 

4  Freely  have  we  received,  as  freely  then 
Must  we  our  heritage  dispense  again ; 
Duty  and  privilege  in  our  service  blend, 
That  our  rich  blessings  may  to  all  extend. 

5  Oh,  Thou !  in  whose  calm  sight  a  thousand  years 
But  as  one  short  day  of  our  life  appears ; 

Bless  all  the  service  of  the  century  past, 
And  help  us  serve  Thee  faithful  to  the  last. 


ififtft  auenue  preslipterian  Cftutcl)         213 

aDDenDa 

a  Delitjcrance  on 
Personal  ^anctification 

MINUTES  OF  SESSION— Tuesday,  January  6th,  1835. 

Tuesday  evening  6"  January  1835.  The  Session  met  at  the 
Call  of  the  Moderator. 

Present,  Rev.  Cyrus  Mason,  modr 
Elders :    Hugh  Auchincloss  Cyrenius  Beers 

Thomas  Masters  Horace  Hinsdale 

Francis  Markoe  John  W.  Carrington 

Deacon,  William  Walker 

Absent  Elisha  Coit,  Joseph  Otis. 

Opened  with  prayer. 

The  minutes  of  the  last  meeting  of  Session  were  read  and 
approved. 

The  Session  record  the  death  of  Heman  Averill  which  took 
place  on  the  31st  December  last. 

It  was  on  motion  Resolved  that  the  paper  reported  to  the  last 
meeting  be  reconsidered.  Whereupon  the  Session  proceeded  to 
the  reconsideration  of  the  same,  and  having  made  several  amend- 
ments therein,  it  was  unanimously  adopted  and  being  ordered  to 
be  recorded  is  as  follows,  viz. 

1st.  That  this  Session  do  most  cordially  unite  in  deploring  the 
existence  of  errors  in  doctrine  and  practice,  in  the  presbyterian 
Church,  as  set  forth  in  the  paper  called  the  act  and  Testimony. 
2nd.  That  this  Session  do  most  strenuously  object  to  the  prac- 
tice of  admissions  in  our  denomination  of  any  who  are  not 
united  with  us  in  adopting  the  Confession  of  Faith  and  Cate- 
chisms of  our  church,  as  their  standard  of  faith  and  practice 
without  reservations  or  substractions  from  any  part  or  parts 
thereof;  and  while  they  do  not  hesitate  to  allow  every  man 
the  exercise  of  his  own  free  and  uncontrolled  opinions  in  mat- 
ters of  religion,  they  pronounce  it  a  breach  of  common  honesty, 
for  any  to  enter  the  church  or  to  remain  in  it,  who  hold  opinions 
in  it  contrary  to  the  standards  thereof  in  their  plain  and  intel- 
ligible meaning  and  according  to  their  obvious  and  accepted 
sense. 

3rd.  That  while  the  Session  do  protest  most  solemnly  against 
the  errors  in  doctrine  and  practice  above  stated — they  believe 
that  these  errors  have  crept   into   the  church   from  a  common 


214  Centennial  Celebration  of  tbe 


cause  wherein  all  must  more  or  less  bear  the  charge  of  guilt, 
which  cause  is  fhe  forgetfulness  of  God  the  Saviour  as  King  in 
Zion,  and  as  Head  over  his  own  body  the  Church,  which  he 
hath  purchased  with  his  own  blood,  and  by  whom  all  things 
consist;  whereby  the  Holy  Spirit  has  been  grieved,  and  his 
influences  in  a  great  measure  withdrawn  from  us.  It  is  then  no 
surprising  thing,  that  many  inventions  have  been  sought  out, 
and  that  men  left  to  themselves,  have  trusted  in  their  own 
wisdom,  which  is  folly,  and  their  own  strength  which  is  weak- 
ness. A  general  laxity  of  discipline  has  prevailed  in  the  churches 
for  a  long  time  past — her  institutions  have  been  undervalued — 
the  judicatories  have  not  been  attended  seriously,  punctually  and 
prayerfully  under  a  deep  and  solemn  impression  of  obligation  to 
duty  and  dependence  upon  the  Holy  Spirit  for  guidance  and 
direction,  and  an  awful  sense  of  accountability  to  act  in  the  fear 
of  God,  according  to  his  holy  will  and  for  the  salvation  of  souls. 

As  a  further  consequence  our  standards  and  book  of  discipline 
have  been  lightly  esteemed  and  it  is  to  be  feared  many  have 
been  admitted  through  haste  and  inadvertence  to  the  holy  office 
of  the  ministry,  imperfectly  educated  in  theology,  and  the  knowl- 
edge of  the  Holy  Scriptures  and  without  those  decided  evidences 
of  evangelical  experimental  piety,  so  indispensable  to  the  building 
up  a  spiritual  church  and  the  conversion  of  the  souls  of  men — 
and  thereby  may  it  not  be,  that  "grievous  wolves  have  entered 
"in  among  us  not  sparing  the  flock  of  Christ,  and  of  our  own- 
"selves  have  men  arisen,  speaking  perverse  things,  to  draw  away 
"disciples  after  them." 

This  Session  mourn  over  a  departure  from  the  simple  doc- 
trines of  "Christ  Jesus  and  him  crucified"  in  the  preaching  of 
the  present  day  and  the  substitution  of  vain,  visionary  and  con- 
fused theories  or  mere  ethics — having  a  direct  tendency  to  delude 
the  souls  of  men,  and  bind  them  up  in  worldliness  until  their 
feet  stumble  upon  the  dark  mountains  of  death. 
4th.  That  these  evils  prevailing  in  our  church,  being  consequent 
upon  a  departure  from  God,  a  speedy  return  to  the  selfdenying 
and  exemplary  duties  of  a  blameless  and  holy  life  is  the  only 
efficient  remedy.  Instead  then  of  measures  which  in  their 
tendency  will  inevitably  lead  to  "debates,  envyings,  strife,  wraths, 
backbitings,  whisperings,  swellings,  tumults,"  let  us  seek  for  indi- 
vidual personal  sanctification,  which  in  its  combinations  will 
produce  a  sanctified  and  holy  church,  let  us  "follow  after  the 
"things  which  make  for  peace,  and  things  wherewith  one  may 
"edify  another"  let  us  "follow  peace  with  all  men  and  holiness, 
"without  which   no  man  shall   see  the  Lord."     Let  us  do  our 


fittt  auenue  preg&pterian  Cfiurcj)         215 


duty  in  our  station  and  in  the  judicatories  of  the  church,  as  God 
may  enlighten  us  when  called  there — and  by  an  humble  devoted 
waiting  upon  God,  be  instrumental  in  drawing  down  upon  the 
church,  the  blessings  of  his  grace.  Jesus  is  the  Lord  and  Shep-' 
herd  of  his  people  the  government  is  upon  his  shoulder — he  is 
alone  and  emphatically,  the  truth — and  his  Holy  Spirit  must  and 
will  guide  his  people  into  all  truth  "My  sheep  hear  my  voice, 
"and  I  know  them,  and  they  follow  me,  and  I  give  unto  them 
"eternal  life  and  they  shall  never  perish,  and  none  shall  pluck 
"them  out  of  my  hand." 

Sth.  That  this  Session  do  warmly  approve  the  sentiments  ex- 
pressed in  the  pastoral  letter  recently  issued  to  their  churches, 
from  the  presbytery  of  New  York,  and  do  bless  God  for  those 
evidences  of  enlightened  piety  and  christian  love  and  watchful- 
ness which  have  dictated  the  same.  It  comes  like  a  refreshing 
shower  on  a  dry  and  thirsty  land.  The  Session  receive  its  ex- 
hortations with  thankfulness  and  with  prayer,  that  its  admoni- 
tions may  be  sanctified  to  their  souls,  and  to  those  of  the  flock 
under  their  charge. 

The  Session  in  due  consideration  of  the  several  matters  now 
suggested  adopt  the  following  resolutions 

1st.  Resolved  that  the  members  of  this  Session  do  bear  solemn 
and  unequivocal  testimony  against  the  errors  in  doctrine  set  forth 
in  the  paper  called  the  act  and  Testimony,  and  declare  the  same 
to  be  dangerous,  heretical,  delusive  to  the  souls  of  men,  contrary 
to  the  Gospel  of  Christ,  and  subversive  of  the  standards  of  the 
church,  our  only  "Bond  of  denominational  Union." 
2nd.  Resolved,  that  in  admissions  to  the  priviledges  of  this 
church,  whether  by  confession  of  faith  or  by  certificates  from 
other  churches — the  applicants  shall  be  required  to  acknowledge 
and  receive  without  reservations,  the  Westminster  confession  of 
Faith  and  Catechisms  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United 
States,  and"  that  they  shall  enter  into  covenant  before  the  church, 
recognizing  the  standards  of  the  presbyterian  Church  as  their 
rule  of  faith  and  practice  and  christian  obedience. 
3rd.  Resolved  That  this  Session  in  consistency  with  their  ordina- 
tion vows  will  more  than  ever  study  the  peace  and  unity  and 
purity  of  the  church  and  "so  let  their  light  shine  before  men, 
that  others  may  see  their  good  works  and  glorify  their  father 
who  is  in  heaven." 

4th.  Resolved,  That  this  Session  will  individually  and  unitedly 
humble  themselves  before  God,  in  view  of  the  evils  which  are 
spread  over  the  church  in  general,  as  well  as  for  those  existing, 
in  their  own  in  particular  and  confessing  their  Sins  before  the 


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Lord,  will  seek  through  a  Saviour's  blood,  forgiveness  thereof, 
in  order  to  that  gracious  return  of  spiritual  influences,  so  freely 
promised  in  the  words  "Come  and  let  us  return  unto  the  Lord 
for  he  hath  torn  and  he  will  heal  us,  he  hath  smitten  and  he 
will  bind  us  up;  after  two  days  he  will  revive  us,  in  the  third 
day  he  will  raise  us  up,  and  we  shall  live  in  his  sight." 
5th.  Resolved,  That  a  copy  of  this  minute  signed  by  the  Mod- 
erator and  Stated  Clerk  be  laid  before  the  Presbytery  of  New 
York  at  its  next  meeting  and  that  a  copy  be  likewise  transmitted 
to  the  Editor  of  the  presbyterian  in  Philadelphia,  as  an  expression 
of  the  views  of  this  Session  upon  the  paper  called  the  Act  and 
Testimony. 
Concluded  with  prayer. 


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^emtjer$  of  tlje 

iFiftj)  3tjenue  pre^bpterian  Cf)urc!) 

for  One  J^unDteD  ^eat0 


D»e.  /J.   /SoS. 

CHABTSR    MEMBERS. 

Hugh   Auchincloss 
William    Cleveland 
Samuel    Darling 
Thos.    Darling 
Elisha  Ely 
George  Fitch 
William    Hall 
Jonathan    W.    Kellogg 
Zechariah   Lewis 
Eliakim  Raymond 
Daniel   Smith 
Splomon   Williams 
Oliver    Wolcott 
Mary    Carrington 
Betsey    Coit 
Nancy  Darling 
Eliza   Lewis 
Ann    Manwairing 
Hannah   Mudge 
Hannah    Neilson 
Nancy   Otis 
Lydia   Richards 
Harriet    Romeyn 
Anna   Todd 
Mary  Watson 
Betsey  Jackson 

Dec.   21,   jSo8. 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Archibald    Gracie 
Ester  Gracie   (Mrs.  A.) 
Pelatiah   Perrit 
Jane  Reid 

Jan.  12,  1809. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

Elisha  Coit 
Peter   Morrison 
Robert  Weir 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Mrs.   Lena   Post 
David   Ely 
Susannah  Darling 

Mar.   16,   i8og. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Harriet   Mumford 

(Mrs.  Benj.  M.) 


Sarah  Brown 
Isaac  Ives 
George  Gosman 
John   Sayre 
Henry  King 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

William  Gibson 
Sarah  Gibson   (Mrs.  W.) 
Peter  Hatterick 
Freelove   Brittain 
Oliver  Wilcox 
Hannah  Porter 
Charlotte  Porter 

May  II,   1809. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

Joseph   Otis 
Wra.   S.   Chapman 
Hezekiah  H.   Williams 
Charles  Richards 
Amory   Gammage 
Elisha    Compstock 
Lydia  Coit 
Mary   Fowler 
Margaret   Strong 
Philetta  Havens 
Rachel   Brown 
Margaret  Ann  Todd 
Amelia   Ives 
Mary   Jackson 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Chas.   A.   Brewster 
Eleazar  Lord 
Sally   Smith 
Mary   McNeil 
Ann    King 
Elizabeth  Sayre 
Joseph   Ogden 
Mehitabel    Ogden 

(Mrs.    Joseph) 
Horace  Hinsdale 
Sarah  Hinsdale 

(Mrs.    Horace) 

July    13,    i8og. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

Sophia    Lewis 

(Mrs.   Zech.) 


Elizabeth    Post 

(Mrs.    Joel) 
Sarah  Williams 
Martha  Lloyd 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTiriCATE 
Samuel  Whiting 
Hannah  Whiting 

(Mrs.   S.) 
Clarissa   Townsend 

(Mrs.  Eben) 
Mrs.    Scribner 
Frederick  S.   Thomas 

Nov.   IS,    iSog. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

Julia    Wattles  (Mrs.  Geo.) 
Charlotte   Strong 
Sarah    Fanning 
John   E.    Caldwell 
Jesse  Scofield 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Jerusha  Perrit 

(Mrs.   Pelatiah) 
Ann  Brewster 

(Mrs.    Chas.    A.) 
Martha  Murray 

(Mrs.   John  B.) 

Nov.   17,    1809. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 
William   Blair 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Hannah   Caldwell 

(Mrs.  John   E.) 
Samuel  Penny 
Jemima  Penny   (Mrs.   S.) 

Jan.   8,    iSio. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION  . 

Abigail   Johnson    Riggs 

(Mrs.   C.    S.) 
Sally  Hall   (l\Irs.  Wm.) 
Wm.   R.   De  Witt 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Julia   Tober 

(Mrs.   H.igh   K.) 
Mrs.    Catharine  Murphy 
Horace  Bull 
Mary    Bull  (Mrs.  Horace) 


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Eunice  Bull                                     July    lo,    1810.  March  11,   j8ii. 
Isaac  Baldwin                       admitted  on  profession  admitted  on  professiok 

William  Callender  Margaret  Beers 

Jan.   19,  1810.             Thomas  Masters  (Mrs.    C.   P.) 

admitted  on  profession  j^^^_   ggj.^^  ggjjjy  Ruius  L.  Nevins 

Mrs.    Isabella    Mix              ^^^^    ^^^^   Vermilyea  Nancy  A.  King 

Ezra  Pratt                            j^^.^^    -g-jj^^    Irving  Elizabeth  Rogers 

admitted  by  certificate      (Mrs.   Ebenezer)  Lydia  Huntington 

Rebecca   Maver                    ^^^.^  Farrington  Sarah  Strong 

(Mrs.  Jas.)                Henry  H.  Schieffelin  Mary  Lang 

March  is,  1810.  admitted  by  certificatb  admitted  by  certificats 

ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  Isabella  Masters  Jno.  Bulckley 

Anna  L.  Bruce                                 (Mrs.    Thos.)  Mrs.    Huldah  Foot 

(Mrs.   Robert)          Martha  Freeman  Mrs.  Clara  Porter 
Eliza  Smith 

Mary  Stewart  Barr                        /„;y  ^^  jSw.  May  6,  1811. 
Lebbens  Loomis                    admitted  by  CERTIFICATE  admitted  on  professiok 

Eliza  Ivoomis                        Divie    Bethune  William   Cook   Mulligan 

(Mrs.  Lebbens)        Joanna  Bethune  Noah  Wetmore 

Jonathan  Little                                (Mrs.  Divie)  Daniel  Corwin 

David  S.   Lyon                    Mrs.  Isabella  Graham  John  Leach 

Levi  Coit                               Dorcas  Marsh  James   Hamilton 

Silas   Hayes  Harriet  Whitney 

Joseph  Hanmore                             ^py,   j^^   jgio.  (Mrs.    Stephen) 
Gilbert   Smith                        admitted  on  profession  Betsey  Jelf  Bliss 

admitted  by  certificate  Archibald    Henderson  (Mrs.   B.  E.) 

Mrs.   Rachel   McCready     Wm.  W.   Vermilye  Winnifred   Wetmore 

Joseph  Marcell                     Hannah   Deming  (Mrs.    Noah) 

Heman  Averill                                  (Mrs.   Barzillai)  Mary   Corwin 

March  14,  1810.          M"-   J°^""*  ^^^^''^  (^^"-    °^"'^'^ 

admitted  by  certificate  ^^'^^  Parker  admitted  by  certificatb 

Jonathan   Mix                      ^ancy  Halsey  Maria   Varick 

Elizabeth  Mary  Mix          Sophia  Wyckoff  (Mrs.    Richard) 
(Mrs.  J.)                   Rebecca   Birch 

Barzillai    Deming  j^^y  p    jgjj_ 

May  7,  1810.             Brown  King  admitted  on  professiow 

admitted  on  profession  John   Church  Ebenezer  Stevens 
Christian  Zabnska                admitted  by  certificate  Peter  Simonson 

Cyren.us  P.    Beers              ^^^.     g^^oughs  Beza   E.   Bliss 

Alexander  Phoenix             Catharine   Burroughs  Helen  Smith 

Margery    Parker                                 ^j^^^^     ^^^.^  ^^^^^^   g^j^j 

Ehza   Durham                      j^^^   j^j^^^  jj_  Ludlow  Margaret  Covert 
Helen   Cunningham             ,j        ^  ois   Peck 

Eliza  Lamb                                 '  admitted  by  certificate 

Rhoda  Smith  (Mrs.  Matt.)              r          a    rB,,  Mrs.  Maria  Baldwin 

Jan.  16,  18 II. 

Nancy  Jones                         admitted  on  profession  . 

Betsy  Scofield                      j^      Wadsworth  ^""'^  '^'  '^''V  ^  _ 

(Mrs.  Jesse)             '^^^^^^  Huntington  ,^°f  l"^^"  °^  professiok 

Alice  Golden  Willet           pj^^^^^    j^^^inson  J°?^   ^^^^ 

Margaret  Bogardus                         ^j^^.^^    ^^_j  John  Gray 

admitted  by  certificate                       '           *  Margaret  Gray 

Mrs.   Patty  Smith                 admitted  by  cERTIFicatu  (Mrs.  Jno.) 

Samuel  Stephens                 James  Morgan  Catharine  Schuyler 

Harriett  B.  Williams          Pamelia    Redfield  Elizabeth  Kelson 

(Mrs.    Solomon)                   (Mrs.   Jno.)  (Mrs.  Joseph) 


Jfiitl)  avenue  prc0ti^teiian  Cf)ur£|5 


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Nov.  18,  1811. 


Jane  Zabriskie    (Mrs.   C.) 


ADMITTED  ON   PROFESSION  Fanny   Chapman 


Benjamin   Strong 
Alexander  Neilson 
Frederick  W.   Wray 
Andrew  Sallig 
Paschal  N.    Strong 
John  Carpenter 


Elizabeth  Uvers 
Sarah   Gardinier 

(Mrs.    Bavent) 
Ursula   Moore 


Jan.  14,  1813. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSIOK 
Jesias   H.   Coggeshall 
Mary   Whitney 
Mary    Hattrick 

(Mrs.  Peter) 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Mrs.   Olivia  Munroe  Richard  Varick 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Phelps       Joseph  Neilson 

Mrs.   Mary  Watson  Richard    Freeman  Eunice  Goodrich 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  Bartlett     Mary  Freeman  (Mrs.  R.)  Sarah   M.    Goodrich 

Rebecca    Haynes  Mrs.    Beulah    Whittlesey 

,Af        c      MX  March   18,    1813. 

(Mrs.    Sam  1)  ^ 

..  ^     --.    ,,    .,.  ,,.        .  ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

Mary  T.  Hall  (Mrs.  Wm.)  y,;^    ,^^    ,g,,_  ^^^^^^^  ^^^ 

Jan.  13,  18 12.  ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  gzra   C.   Woodhull 

ADMITTED  ON   PROFESSION  1°""    E.    Hyde  Wm.   A.   Prince 

Rosv/ell  L.   Colt  Maria  Hyde  Lemuel   Brewster 

George  Duffield    (Jr.)  (-'^rs.   Jno.    E.)         Selah   Covel 

John  Taylor  Rebecca   Coit 

Mary  Taylor   (Mrs.  Jno.)  (Mrs.   Elisha) 

Frederick   King  Hannah    Selleg 

Joshua  E.  R.  Birch  (Mrs.   Andrew) 

Henry  Hill 

Caleb  O.    Halsted 

Eliza  Havens 

Frances    Pratt 

Mary   Weston 

Patty    Codwise 
March  is,  1812.  Ann  June 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION  Polly    Rose 

Ashael   Hathaway  Gertrude  Green 

Charles  Mclntire  Esther  Miller 

John   W.   Carrington  Abigail  Fisher 


Robert   Robinson 
Mary   Robinson 

(Mrs.  Robt.) 
Rachel  Leavenworth 

(Mrs.   Elisha) 
Eunice  Stebbins 

(Mrs.    Simon) 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  ■ 

Mary  Hinman 


Rachel  Birch 

(Mrs.  J.   E.  R.) 
Rhoda  Gorham 

(Mrs.    Stephen) 
Maria  McClelland 
Gitty   Sparling 
Sarah  Cable 
Philip  Ludlow 
ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Gerald  Lathrop 
Mary    Lathrop 

(Mrs.  Gerald) 


Martha  Le  Roy 

(Mrs.    Jacob) 
Rhoda   Tunis    (Mrs.) 
Hannah  Gamage 

(Mrs.    Amory) 
Eliza    Murray 
Oliver  Murray 
Jessy  G.   Bethune 
Mary  Ann  Coit 
Isabella   G.   Bethune 
Hannah    McClure 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE    ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 


William  Keese 
Betsey    Scribner 
Thomas  Godard 
Daniel    B.    Hempstead 
Grace   Hempstead 

(Mrs.   D.    B.) 
Nancy  Deforest 

(Mrs.  Philo) 
Hannah  Chandler 

Nov.  12,  1812. 


James   Kelso 
Catharine  Dey 

(Mrs.    Tunis) 
Ezekiel   W.   Morse 

July    15,    18 1 3. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

William   S.   Root 
Marcus    Wilber 
Rufus  Davenport 
Hetty  Ogden 


Leveritt  T.  L  Huntington  admitted  on  profession  Rhoda  Ward 


Mrs.    Sarah  Malcolm 
Margaret  Malcolm 


Amasa  Jackson 
Jotham    Post    (Jr.) 
May   J4,   1812.  ^usan  Johnson 

admitted  on  profession  Catharine  B.   Malcolm 
William  Johnson  Maria  Clisby 

Julius  L.   Dunning  admitted  by  certificats  ^"^^^^  Wm.  Johnson 

Martha  Dunning  Sarah  Baker  admitted  by  certificate 

(Jlrs.  J.  L.)  Mille  Philips  James  Olmstead 


Winifred  Post 
Mrs.   Sarah  Young 
Eliza   Young 
Martha   M.   Coit 
Thankful   W.    Gibbs 


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Cornelia   Sands 

(Mrs.    Comfort) 
Joanna   Lott 
Jennette    Godard 

(Mrs.  Thos.   H.) 
Mrs.   Anna  McThinne 

Nov.   24,   1813. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Harriet   Bishop 

(Mrs.    Warren) 
Daniel    Wurtz 


Julia    Ufford 

(Mrs.   Hezekiah) 
Elizabeth  H.  Baldwin 

(Mrs.    Isaac) 
Helen  S.   Ogden 
Phebe  Wurtz 

(Mrs.    Daniel) 
Sally  Wilcox 

(Mrs.    Oliver) 
Mrs.  Hoe 
Harriet   B.   Wilson 

(Mrs.    Jas.    R.) 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATB 

Elizabeth    Tracey  admitted  by  CERTIFICATE  Charles  Rollinson 

fMrs    B;irton^  ^^*"    Stuyvesant,    Jr.      Wakenian   Burritt 

(Mrs.   Barton)  ^liphalet  Gillett 

Jan.  13,  1814.  Helena   Gillett   (Mrs.    E.) 

ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  Agnes  Watson 
Margaret  W.   Goodman  (Mrs.   Joseph) 

(Mrs.  John  K.)        Alexander   Duncan 
Wm.    T.    Manning  Mary  Duncan 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  (Mrs.  Alex.) 

Reuben  Smith 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATB 
Geo.    F.    Vanpell 
Sarah   Vanpell 

(Mrs.    Geo.) 
Mrs.    Elizabeth  Helm 
Mrs.   Sarah  Layton 
Abigail  Taylor 

(Mrs.    Geo.) 
Jared   Mead 

July    13,    1815. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Robert  Graham 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Thomas   Masters 
Isabella   Masters 

(Mrs.    Thos.) 
Mary  Wallace 
Susan    Stuyvesant 

(Mrs.    Peter) 
Mrs.    Fanny   Chapman 


March    16,    1815. 

March  16,  1814.  admitted  on  profession  f^j^y^    j^^^   ^^^_ 

ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  Isabella  Steele  admitted  on  profession 

Maria  Metcalfe  (Mrs.  Robt.   M.)      gamuel  M.   Blatchford 

Ann   Maine    (Mrs.  Geo.)    j>^^^y    Johnson 

(Mrs.  Jno.  C.) 


May  12,  1814. 


Mary   C.    Todd 

admitted    ON    PROFBSSION  j^^3_    j^^^y    p^^^j^^ 

Lucretia   Felter 

(Mrs.   Jno.) 
Knowles  Taylor 


Eliza   Little 
Elizabeth  Graham 
(Mrs.  Robt.) 
admitted  by  CERTIFICATB  Frances   Jessup 
Eliphalet    Stratton  (Mrs.  Tarbel) 

Ashbel  Bulckley 
Curtis  Clark 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Augustus  Spencer 
Hannah   Spencer 

(Mrs.    Augustus) 
Clarissa   Evarts 
Neven  I<ee 


July   II,    1814. 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Julia    Gamage 

(Mrs.  Sam'l) 
Rebecca  Clark 

(Mrs.    Curtis) 
Archibald  Bulckley 


ADMITTED  by  CERTIFICATE 

Charlotte  Wilbur 

(Mrs.    Rodney) 

Jan.    iS,   18 16. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Joseph   Graham 
Ann    Ogden 

(Mrs.   David  S.) 
Grace    Burritt 

(Mrs.   Wakeman) 
Charles  Coggcshall 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

James  Bliss 

Mrs.   Anna    Beach 

Mrs.  Abigail   Lanman 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Jane  B.   Delaplaine  , .  „ 

^  May  II,  1815. 

Nov.    17,    1814.  ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

ADMITTED  ON   TROFESSION  Lewis  Ward  March   13,    1816. 

James  O.  Gaither  Horace   Seymour  Manley  admitted  on  profession 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Jane    Nevins 

(Mrs.  Rufus  L.) 
Robert   Steel 

Jan.  II,  18 15. 
ADMITTED  ON  profession  Mrs.  Margaret  Kidney 
Charles  Watts  Tarbel   Jessup 


Elizabeth  Ward 
Sarah  Austin 

(Mrs.  Daniel) 
Lucina   Graham 
Rebecca  Washburne 


Peter   H.   Shaw 
Jerusha  Deanes 
Maria  Rollinson 
Lucy  Evarts 
Sarah  Owens 


Mrs.  Oliver  Trowbridge    Margaret    Baldwin 
Asa  Taylor 
Abby  Taylor   (Mrs.  Asa) 


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ADMITTED  BV  CERTIFICATE  James  B.  Taylor  admitted  by  certificate 

Charles  Hyde  Eliza  Ann  Graham  Susan    Pardon 

Wealthy   Ann    Bulckley     Joanna  Jacobs  Mary   Hall    (Mrs.  Jos.) 

(Mrs.    Archibald)    Maria  Talbot  m  -     -      x 

James  Morgan  (Mrs.  Geo.  W.)  '  •''        '' 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

June   5,    1816.  ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  William  Bostwick 

ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  Aurelia   Carrington 
Israel    Foot  (Mrs.  Jno.  W.)  Jan.  15,  181S. 

Tl,^™,,.    A/r      Cf.-^.,^  ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSIOK 

Thomas  M.   Strong  ^...^  ,^^  ,Si6.  Archibald   Bogue 

1  nomas   t,.    \  ermilye  admitted  on   profession 

Roderick  Sedgwick  John  Ogden  Dey  admitted  by  certificate 

Margaret  Sedgwick  jgaac  Newton  Cande  ^^'^  ^""   Woodhull 
(Mrs.   R.)  (Mrs.    Ezra   C.) 

Silas   T.    Baldwin  ^^n.  16,  1817.  Mrs.  Margaret  I,effingwell 

William   E.   Noyes  admitted  on  profession  Avatus  Kent 

Elizabeth    Metcalf  Najah    Taylor  James  Baber 

Nancy   Fanning  Susan   Taylor  Mrs.    Sophia    Gibbs 
Elizabeth  Lawrence                         ^^I"-    Najah)  ^^^^^^   ^^ 

CMrs     Jonathan")  Susan    Codman  ' 

(.mrs.    jonainan;  xv^  \  admitted   on   PROFESSION 

Daniel   h.   Bishop  (Mrs.  Wm.)  ^.^^.^^   ^^.^^^ 

Joseph   Watson  admitted  by  certificate  Henry   Havens 

Hannah  Watson  Joseph   Sanford  Js^^^^y  ^^^    Strong 

(Mrs.  Joseph)  Lucy  Bishop  Margaret  S.  Ten  Broeck 

Thomas   L.    Ely  (Mrs.  Daniel)  2tfrs.   Hester   Sickles 

iT^-    ^l^^?}^"^  March    13.   1817.  H^^iet   Hotchkiss 

Maria    btebbins  Mr<!    Nanrv  Whit(» 
_    ,        ,,  ^        .  ,                admitted  on  profession  •'"ts.  iNancy   wnite 

Esther    McCormick  Elizabeth    Hubbell  Hannah  Lee 

(Mrs.  Hugh)  |,^j^^    ^  J  Phiiiis  Deniston 

admitted  by  certificate  Elizabeth   Dubois  Mary  Elsworth 
Wilham    Little                       admitted  by  CERTIFICATE   admitted  by  certificaTB 

Maria  Leavitt  ^^^^^  Ledyard  Walter  Monteith 

(Mrs.  David)  ^  Ledyard  Elizabeth  Armstrong 

Nancy    Sistare  (Mrs.  Jos.)  (Mrs.    Wm.) 

William  L.  Cande  ^^y  8,  1817. 

Charles    Starr  admitted  on  profession  j^^^y  j^    ^g^g 

Nancy   Starr  George  Munro  admitted  on'  profession 

(Mrs.    Chas.)  ■'^""   Jenknison  Catharine    Maria   Tousey 

Ann  B.  Griswold  J^"^  Jenkinson  j^^^  Taylor 

(Mrs.   N.   L.)  Mary  Ann    Squire  Elizabeth  Braiden 

Jane   Braiden 

July    18.   1816.  Margaret  Kelso  admitted  by  certificate 

admitted  on  profession  Diademia   Wheeler  Elouisa   Ely 
Abraham    Kidney                              .   ,  (Mrs.    Elisha) 

Wm.   P.   Stewart  -^"'^   '^'    '^''^- 

o  ^,    ixr  ,,  admitted  on  profession  July  i6,   1818. 

KUtll      Walton  7ir-,,-  T>,  -r.      rr 

Walter  K    Pennv  William   Piatt   Buffett        admitted  on  profession 

0     ,.      „■        ^  Solomon    M.    Smith  Elizabeth    Doughty 

Sophia  Brewster  -n.^         ^1       , 

Mary  Cheetham 

admitted  BY  certificate  Elizabeth  Cheetham  ^ov.  12,  1818. 

Frederick   King  admitted  by  certificate 

■kf  Aut,        T       J  admitted  BY  CERTIFICATB  T^       ■   i    ^»r   .      i_ 

Mrs.    Abby    Leeds  _,  ..^    tii  .  i_r     j      Daniel  Waterbury 

»T        AL-     -1   c-  1.  .,    Thomas  W.   Blatchford  ■' 

Mrs.  Abigail  Saltonstall 

Oct.  21,  1817.  Dec.  10,  1818. 

Sept.    12,    1816.  ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION    ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  Frederick   Evarts  Mabel    Marquand 

Wm.   A.   Cook  Sarah   Sands  (Mrs.  Isaac) 


222  Centennial  Cele&tation  of  tht 


Rebecca  Norwood  Nov.  ii,  j8ig.  Oct.  5,  1830. 

(Mrs.   Andrew)         admitted  on  profession  admitted  on  profession 
Ruth   Tucker  Giles  N.   Whitney  William   Douglass   Cairns 

(Mrs.    Isaac)  George  A.   Perkins  Susan  Brewster 

Betsey  Peterson  Deborah  Allen  (Mrs.   Joseph) 

admitted  by  certificate  admitted  by  certificate  J^"^  Walmsley 
Wilhelmina  Johnston         Catharine  Wilbur  Hannah  Thompson 

Keziah  Murden  (Mrs.   Marcus)  admitted  by  certificats 

Mary  O.    F.   Davison         Mrs.   Sarah  Lenington       Eliza    S.    Gardiner 
Peggy  Thompson  (Mrs.  N.) 

Lenah  Rankin  Dec.  p,  i5jp.  Nicholas  Aldridge 

Theophilus   Parvin  admitted  on  profession  Cynthia  Aldridge 

Andrew  S.  Norwood  (Mrs.  N.) 

Feb.  IJ,  1819.  Helen   Kissam  £)^^   ^^  jg^^ 

admitted  on  profession  admitted  on  profession 

Wm.   H.  Whitney  Feb.  10,  1820.  Joanna  M.    Vermilyee 

Helen  W.  Hutchins  admitted  on  profession  Margaret  L,.   Vermilyee 

Ann  M.  Huck  Gilbert   Tenant    Snowden  Elizabeth  Earl 

ATiniTTTPn  15V  rifpTTTJirAT*  EHzabcth   Malcolm 

ADMITTED  BY  certificate  ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATS 

Thomas  Turnbull  admitted  by  certificate  Maria  Smith 

Jacob   Poinier  Mehitable   Smith  (Mrs.    Sol.   M.) 

Jane   Poinier  (Mrs.  J.)  .     -,    .      „  Mrs.  Anne  Halsted 

Henry  M.   Brittin  '^^''^    <5,   i8io.  ^^    g    ^ 

Benj.  C.    Smith  ^^.^^^^^/^  i"^./''"''^^^!"'' John    Blatchford 

William  H.  Williams         ^hza   A     Baaey  Frederick   Blatchford 

(Mrs.   Floyd   S.) 
April  8,   1819.  Sophia  Rhodes  Feb.  17,  1821. 

admitted  on  profession  Eliza  Hubley  admitted  on  profession 

Stephen   B.    Hutchings         admitted  by  certificate  ^'^'"^'■'^   *^^'^'" 
George   M.   Wilson  Thadeus   Sherman  Martha   Vandewatcr 

Louisa   Howland  (Mrs.   A.) 

(Mrs.   Gardiner)  June  8,   1820.  Margaret   Calhoun 

Olivia  Brown   (Mrs.   R.)    admitted  on  profession  Diana  Dubois 
Nancy  Billard  Cornelia  Ann  Whitney        admitted  by  certificaTU 

(Mrs.    Giles   M.)      Harvey  Fisk 
June   10,   1819. 
admitted  on  profession  June  9,  1820.  April  4,    1821. 

John  Taylor  admitted  on  profession   admitted  on  profession 

Julia  Elmer  Sally  Francis  Eliza    Callender 

Mary  Clark  admitted  by  certificate   admitted  by  certificate 

admitted  by  certificate  David  G.  Hubbard  Wm.    F.    Curry 

Lucy  Jackson  Sarah  L.  Coit  . 

(Mrs.   Luther)  ^"^-  ^'  '^''■ 

Louisa  Caldwell  Aug.  10,  1820.  '^"^"^^f  o'^  profession 

admitted  on  profession  ^a"y    Stewart 
Aug.  5,  1819.  John  Aspinwall  (Mrs.  Wm.  P.) 

admitted  on  profession  Susan  Howland  Aspinwall  q^^    jj    jg^i. 

Theodore  Keese  (Mrs.  J.)  admitted  on  profession 

Rebecca    Keese  Elisha  D.   Hulbert  Abigail   Fountain 

(Mrs.  Wm.)  Nathaniel    S.   Penny  (Mrs.    Isaac) 

ADMITTED  by  certificate  Maria  Callendar  Lothena   Frost 

Mrs.   Rhoda  Keese  '^'"ah  Johnson  Charles    B.    Brientnall 

Caleb   O.    Halstead  admitted  by  certificate  Adeline   Curtis 

John  Napier  Elizabeth  Hower  Robert  Birch 


JFifti)  auenue  Pre0fjpterian  Cijutci)         223 


Dec.  6,  1821.  ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Aug.  4,  1824. 

ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  Horatio  N.   Brinsmade        admitted  on  profession 
Wm.  Allen  „  James    H.    VVoodhuU 

Catharine  M.   Strong  ^^^^^gp  \^  profession    admitted  by  certificatb 

Caroline  Amelia    Smith  ^^^^^^^  ^    g^.^^^  EH.a    D.    Woodhull 

Mary  M    Taylor  je^emiah   Wilbur  (M'^.   Jas.    H.) 

Betsey  Curtis  ^^^^^^^   ^^^^.^^  I^inus   Mead 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  ^j^j^^      ^hoS.)  „,,     g      ,.,. 

Margaret  Pitt  _  .       „^       .  '-'^'^-  °'   ^"4- 

t,hza.  b.  ivewis  admitted  on  profession 

Feb.  7,  1822.  Sophia  M.  Lewis  j;iias    B.    Watrous 

ADMITTED   ON   profession    ^^MITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Sarah     Taylor 
Joseph  Brewster  -^^.^     Martha    Watrous 

Maria  Curtis  j^jj^  j^^^  Watrous  ^^"^  ^'  •'^■^^• 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATB  ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSIOK 

Stephen  Peck  March   26,    1823.          J^"«    ^""    ^^""y 

Ann  Peck   (Mrs.    S.)  admitted  on  profession              J^,ly  ^7^  1826. 

Mrs.    Sarah   Woolley  Wm.   M.    Ross                       admitted  on' profession 

Jenny   Bloodgood  Margaret    Dayton    Terrill^jfj-ed    Charles    Post 

Jude  Wyncoop  Ross   (Mrs.  W.  M.) 

Oct.  4,  1826. 

April  25,   1822.  April  g,  1823.             admitted  on  profession 

ADMITTED   on   profession    ^pjjjTTED   ON    PROFESSION  Jane     EHis 
Lydia    Sherman   Olcott       j-jj^a    Robins  „         „      „  ^ 

Phoebe   Curtis  (Mrs.    Ashbel    W.)  ^''-  *'  '^'^- 

_  T  ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

June   20,    1822.  Betsey  Jones  ^^^^^   ^^^^^^ 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION  (Mrs.    Ezekiel    W.) 

Daniel  Austin  ^"^^  ^-  ■^*^-^- 


ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION     ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Elizabeth    Hoe  Francis     Marko 

Sarah  Lanman  Sarah    Markoe 


Elisha   Averill  ^,.     ,      ,     tt  t^         •       ,t     . 

T        I    Tj      1      J   /^  -^         Elizabeth    Hoe  Francis    Markoe 

Joseph  Howland  Coit 


Hester  Graham  ,^^        _ 

CTVT        n         \\T  \  (Mrs.     Francis) 

Mary  C    HatS^k       '  ^^'^  ''  ''''■  ^^-^^^  ^-   ^^^^^ 

mary  v,.    riduncK  ADMITTED  ON   PROFESSION  Sally    Markoe 

Mary  H    Lanman  ^^^^  gavage  Mary    M.    Caldwell 

Margaret  Marsh  ,,.  ■         t 

TT       •  ^^     T    ^       T>       1  „  -  Miriam    Lewis 

Henrietta  M.  Ten  E«rock  Dec.  10    i82i.  . 

•c-T       n    -Di,  1  '        ->  ^jin    Lewis 

Eliza  D.  Phelps  admitted  on  profession  ,,  .  ^,  ..  .c     j 

„  Mary    Ann    Blatchford. 
admitted  BY  CERTIFICATE  Lucretia     Steven 

Polly  Mead  (Mrs.Merbin)  (Mrs.  Eben.)  p^j^    ^    jg„ 

Aug.    8,   1822.  admitted  BY  CERTIFICATE   ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

admitted  on   PROFESSION  Sarah    Scribner  John    Wheelwright 

David  M.  Hubbard  Gurdon    S.    Buck 

Wm.   B.   Phelps  April  7,  1824.  Ralph    Olmsted 

Abby  T.  Lanman  admitted  by  certificate  Mary     Olmsted 

Emeline  Penny  Catharine    Nelson  (Mrs.   R.) 

Dec.  5.  1822.  ^,        ^!'^'^-    J°^-)  Harriet   Coit 

Edmund    Hyatt 
ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION  - .      .       ^    -^    tj        -^^  ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Tvr         XT  Maria  Coit   Perritt  ,.        --t       •  ,«^      • 

Mary  Hoe  Mrs.    Henrietta   Martin 

Emeline  Hoe  Jun"  o     jS'j  William  Walker 

Cynthia   Smith  admitted  by  certificate  ^""    Wheelwright 

Harriet  Cable  j^ary   McEvers  (Mi's-    Jno-) 

Antoinette   Cable  George   Munroe 

Martha   C.    Masters  June  11,  1824.  Richard    C.    Morse 

Sar^h  Masters  admitted  on  profession  Wm.    G.     Watrous 

Jane  L-  Auchincloss  Robert    Buloid  Samuel    M.    Blatchford 


224  Centennial  Celebration  of  tlje 


Betsey    Blatchford  Stephen  Keelcr  admitted  by  certificate 

(Mrs.   S.  M.)  Amos   Thornton  Eliza  A.    Robbins 

Ann    Hall  Elizabeth   Thornton  .  „  „ 

,,,         .         .  Aug.  7,  1828. 

(Mrs.   Amos)  *    " 

April   4,    J827.  ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSIOM 

admitted  on   phofessiom  q^(_  p^  1^27.  Sarah  Lang 

William    W.    Chester  admitted  on  profession  Elizabeth  Markoe 

Hannah    M.    Chester        Mrg.     gUza    Dart  ^m.   Henry  Hoople 

(Mrs.    W.    W.)       Cornelia    Halstead  Q^^    ^    jg^g 

Mary    Bill  (Mrs.   Caleb  O.)      ^„^„ted  'on  profession 

Carolme    Steele  Betsey   Kellogg  Joseph  Alden 

Emma    Beers  (Mrs.  Timothy)        Maryette  Morse 

Harriet    Beers  Elizabeth     Hubbard  Lucy  Hubbard 

Cornelia    Battelle  Martha  Hubbard  Frances  Jessup 

Rebecca    Shaddock  Mary    Spencer 

admitted  by  certificaTS 
admitted  by  cERTipicaTB  admitted  by  CERT1F1CAT8  Julina  Mason 
Dennis     Davenport  Sophia     Havens  Ann  Mason 

Catharine    Davenport  (Mrs.    Hy.)  Perses  Lee 

(Mrs.    Dennis)         james  N.  Cobb  phiio.  F.  Phelps 

Henry    Young  John  R.  McDowel 

Mary     L.     Young  Dec.  6,  1837.  ^^    j^  g_  ^.^^^^ 

(Mrs.    Hy.)  admitted  on  profession 

Joseph    E.    Marshall  Theressa    King  Dec.  3,  1828. 

Lucretia    Richards  admitted  by  certificaTB 

June  7,  1827.  .nMTTTFD  Bv  cFRTiFiCATB  ^'^^^  Thompson 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION    A^TEDBv  CERTIFICATE  ^^.^^.^^^^ 

Nathaniel    Gardiner  ^^°'^^    Walker 

Henry  B.  Hinsdale  Hannah    Estie  ^,'2tZ'l..n 

Wm     R     '^wift  John  bimonson 

Henry   Butler  Wm.    R.   Swift  J^^^^  ^.^^^^^^ 

Henry    C.    Mudge  «  „  „ 

Hellen  Kent   (Mrs.  Wm.)  _^    ' /'       ^ J^^ Dec.  10.  1828. 

„  ,        ,      „  „  ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Elizabeth  Battelle  Emily    Richards  admitted  on  profession 

Martha    Hinsdale  ^^_  j^_  ^^^^^^^  Richard  M  Hoe 

Laura   Clark  James  Wright  Eliza  Man  ey 

Ann    Maria    Hyde  Mary   S.   John 

Louisa    Buloid  admitted  by  certipicats  admitted  by  certificatb 

Maria     Halstead  Lorenza    Stevens  Hannah  Whitney 

(Mrs.    Wm.   M.)      Norman   White 

c       %,    VM  ;^„»  Ion  Leavitt  J'^^-  3o,  1829. 

Sarah   Eldndge  ^  admitted  on   profession 

Elizabeth    Haines  Frederick  Stanley 

Martha    White  ^P>-''  '°'  ^«^»-  .   ,      Cowzens 

Mary    R.    Crosby  admitted  on   profession  John  Cowzens 

AmeUa    A     Tavlor  ^ary    Ann    Gray  Sarah  Deming 

Amelia    A.     laylor  Mary  Eldredge 

Martha   Jackson  ^.liza  M.    Steel  gaily  Edwards 

.„^^„_Pn  „„  rFRTTPiCATB    ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

!.„„    E.     Hyde  Ne...„    H.ye.  'Z,^^^,,^^, 

(Mrs.  J.  L.)  Andrew  Thompson 

Ezekiel    W.   Morse  •'""'^    5.    1S28.  c„,v,  Th„^„c^r, 

ADMITTED  ON   PROFESSION  Sarah  Thompson 

July  25,  1827.  Woodbridge  S.   Olmsted  Mary  A.  White 

ADMITTED  ON   PROFESSION  Ncwton  St.  John  J"'i^  ^-  Montague 

Abby    Harington  Edward    Field  Eliza  Doremus 

Orvin    Thompson  Grace   E.   Burritt  April  3,  1829. 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Jane  Miller  admitted  on  profession 

Mrs.    Hardy  Isabella    Field  Edwin  I.  Brown 


jfiftJ)  auenue  pre$fipterian  Cfjurcf)         225 


James  M.  Halstead  Jan.  7,   1830.  Martha  Beatty 

John  H.  Morrison  admitted  on   profession    admitted  by  CERTIFICATE 

Chas.  A.  Brewster  Wm.  Hall.  Jr.  Mary  McCormick 

Robt.  R.  Kellogg  Frances  M.  Mason 

Elbert  J.  Rosevelt  Nancy  Johnson  ^^°-  ^^'  •'^■^^• 

„  r.  11-  ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Homer  Kamsaaie  admitted  by  certificate  jang  g    Sterrett 

Charles  Mudge  Ambrose  S.  Ludlow  (jy^rs    Benj  ) 

Caroline  H.  Dey  Stillman  S.  Clapp  Margaret  Wilsey    " 

Mary  Dimond  ,, ,       _  - 

Achsah  Smith  P^b.  5,   2830.  .      ^^rs.  J.) 

Ant.  L.  Taylor  admitted  by  certificate  ^°'''"S  Andrews 

Sarah  L.  Ross  Catharine  Wales  ^ 

Derentine  Sexton  Catharine  Staples  '  '  '       ^  ' 

uerentine  oexton  c    r-    jj      j  ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Emily  Steel  J^th.  S.  Goddard  ^^^^^^  ^^^^^^^ 

Wm.  Henry  Smith  _.      .,_.      ., 

ADMITTED  by  certificate  j^j^j-y  P   Sturges  David  Hoadley 

William  Hall  ^  '  Joseph  C.  Farnham 

Mary  J.  Hall  April  2,  1830.  Simeon  P.  Hyde,  Jr. 

ADMITTED  ON   PROFESSION  Amasa  Jackson 

July  7,   1829.  Elizabeth  Dimond  Hartman  Markoe 

ADMITTED  ON   PROFESSION  Charlotte  Ludlow  Samuel  C.  Masters 

John  Ely  Abigail  D.  Sturges  Henry  Wyckoff  Olcott 

William  Taylor  Merlin  Mead  Joseph  Parker  Spencer 

Richard  Catlin  Lorenzo  Lee  James  R.  Westcott 

Clarissa  Catlin  Charles  St.  John  Ebenezer  Russel 

Eliz.   H.    Green  Chas.  A.  Marvin  Whittlesey 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Allen  M.  Jerome  Atamson  Trask 

Solomon  E.  Moore  John  Hall  Francis  Burritt 

Elizabeth  Helme  admitted  by  CERTIFICATE  -1°^''^^  Salisbury  Breese 

Sarah  Layton  Charlotte  O.  Risley  Thomas  Archibald 

Cummins 

Oct.  8,   1829.  July   5,    1830.  William  Edwards  Mead 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION    ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION  James  Jay  O'Kill 

Henry  S.  St.  John  Angeline  Ludlow  Hannah  Scribner 

Lewis.  Tappan  Julia  Hinsdale  (Mrs.  Elizah  P.) 

Susan  A.  Tappan  Frederick  A.  Burke  Mary  W.  Butler 

Rachel  Dimond  George  W.  Ives  (Mrs    Silas    Tr  ) 

ADMITTED  by  CERTIFICATE    ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Phoebe  Cobb 
John  Wright  John  Gallaher  (Mrs.  Jas.  N.) 

Richard  J.  Thorne  Sarah  Gallaher  Mary  Hoadley 

Nancy  S.  St.  John  Mary  Gallaher  (Mrs.  David) 

Catharine  Duffy  Esther  McCormick  Charlotte  Smith 

Hetty  A.  McCormick  (Mrs.  Wm.  H.) 

Dec.  10,  1829.  Caroline  Sophia  Lowery 

ADMITTED  ON   PROFESSION  iept.  17,  1S30.  (Mrs  Jno  ) 

Angeline  Ketchum.  /°^^""°  ^^  certificate  jj^„„^^  ^,^.^^  ^^^.^ 

Frances  Staples  J°'^n  Mason  ^^^^^  Calvin)       ' 

Caroline  Drake  q^^    ^^   ^5,^  j^^e  Baker  ' 

ADMITTED  BY  certificate  ADMITTED  ON   PROFESSION  Martha  Caldwcll 

Rhoda  Smith  David  Codwise  Ann    Eliza    Doremus 

Nancy  Day  Rufus  Leavitt  Ann  Frances  Darling 

Sarah  M.  Mease  Amos  S.  Cook  Anna  Freeman 

Sarah  W.  Gurchy  James  S.  Brown  Sarah  Hall 

Andrew  Mills  Edward  Jones  Ann  Knight 

Lucy  S.  Mills  Mary  Decamp  Caroline  Powell 


226 


Centennial  Celetiration  of  tfje 


Mary  Seely  Eliza  Sumner 

Harriet    Hannah    Thorne  Charles  C.  Darling 

Louisa  Caroline  Thorne      Adeline  Darling 

Cornelia  Miller  Thorne  (Mrs.  C.  C.) 

Jemima  Terboss 

Ann  Emmons 

Caroline  Emmeline  Hoe 

Mary  Evans 

Laura  Louisa  Johnson 

Cornelia  Johnson 

Mary  Elizabeth  Nevins 

Helen  Augusta  Nevins 

Elizabeth  Huntington  Otis, 

Mary  Phelps  Olmsted 


July  20,  1831. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Frederick  Marquand 
Josiah  Penfield  Marquand 
Cornelius  Paulding 

Marquand 
Samuel  B.  Haight 
Edward  M.  Price 
Thomas  Darling,  Jr. 
Hetty  Marquand 

(Mrs.  Fred.) 

Sept.  30,    1831. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Edward  Buck 
Frances  Mills 

(Mrs.  Cephas 


Josephine  S.  Ross 
Sarah  Burr  White 
Julia  Ann  Olcott 
Maria  Sheffield  White 
Ann  Eliza  Goddard 
Jane  Eliza  Gamage 
Rachel  Hoe 

Frances  Elizabeth  Sistare  Mary  Spencer  White 
Sarah  Lord  Sistare  (Mrs.    Cephas) 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Mary  Sheldon  Graham 
Cynthia  F.  Davis  Mary  Post 

Jane  Graham 
April  5,  1831.  Caroline  Kirkland 

ADMITTED  ON   PROFESSION  Maria  Scribner 
Benjamin  B.  Coit 


William  Haines,  Jr. 

Margaret  C.  Doremus 

Sarah  Buck 

Ann  Hoe 

Francis  Maria  Hayes 

June  9,  1831. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

John  W.  Leavitt 
George  D.  Phelps 
Theodore  L.  Mason 
William  Callender,  Jr. 
William  C.  Frink 
John  Jeseaume  Delatour 
Cecilia  K.  Leavitt 

(Mrs.  Jno.  W.) 
Alma  Post  (Mrs.  Joel) 
Eliza  Jane  Travis 
Emily  Brown 
Catharine  Davenport- 
Hannah  Haines 
Eliza  Jane  Kelso 
Lucretia  Marquand 
Matilda  Scribner 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Stephen  P.  Leeds 
John   M.    Seely 
Mrs.  Fanny  Burnet 
Elizabeth  Mathilda 

Farnham 
Sarah  Amanda  Lucas 

Dec.    13,    1831. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

Gurdon  Buck 

Susanna   Buck    (Mrs.    G.) 

Elbert  Knight 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Samuel  N.  Burrill 
Betsey  Maria  Burrill 
(Mrs.  S.  M.) 

Feb.  7,  1832. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 
William  Castle 
Maria  Hayes 

(Mrs.  Newton) 

March  31,  1832. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Cephas  Mills 
Palmer  Sumner  John  Gill  Nelson 


Charles  C.  Young 
John  Wright 
Sarah   Marquand 
Letty  Marie  Schofield 
Hannah  Johnson 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATS 
Mary    S.    Peck 
Ann  Thorne 
Lavinia    Thorne 
Mary  Ann  Patrick 

June   5,    1S32. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

David  Buck 
David  N.  Demarest 
Hannah  Demarest 
Sarah    Thompson 
Evelina  Thompson 
Julia  Burr 
Charity   Burr 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATB 
Jane  L.  Jackson 
Mary  Tingle 
Phoebe  Crozier 

Oct.  6,   1832. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Mary  Buckridge 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATS 

Martha  Martin  Lucas 
(Mrs.  Paul) 

Dec.  I,  1832. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 
Mary  Barr  Auchincloss 
Pardon  Davenport  Davis 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Charles  Crosby 
Cordelia  C.  Crosby 

Feb.  J,   1833. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Ann  Brewster 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Esther  Storrs 

(Mrs.  Hy.  R.) 

April  2,  1833. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Martha  Wurts 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Mary  Smith  Simonson 

(Mrs.  John) 
Rachel  Morgan 

(Mrs.  David) 
Sarah  Boyd 


ififtl)  atienue  pte^fipteriau  C|)utcf)         227 


June  4,  1833.  Harriet  Candee  Jane  Roberts 

ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  (Mrs.  M.  L.)  James  P.  Swain 

Martha  Gibson  Eliza  Johnes  Araminta  Swain 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  (Mrs.  Aaron  P.)  (Mrs.  J.  P.) 

Anna  Halsted  Emily  Chapman  Hubbard 
Nathaniel  N.  Halsted                     -^""^   ^^'    ^'^^-  (Mrs.   J.    B.) 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION  c>        i    r-       i 

TT  0   HT   „■  barah  Fowler 

August   6,    1S33.  ^':"!'^^;f""'^""  Louisa  Lynch 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  w uiiam  Mumgan  g^^^j^  j^^^^.^  Vanpelt 

Esther  O.  Macomber  Peyton  R.Storrs  Elizabeth  Wilson 

^•^■^^^^^  Matilda  Kellogg 
Oct.   10,    1833.                 ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Elizabeth  Kello'^g 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION  Robert  W    Mead  TT^        1-        nr    r^''       -I 

T  ,      ir   ivT  r^uucrt  vv .  luedu  Emmehna  McCormick 

John  M.  Morgan  Elleanor  Bolton  ja^es  Bayles 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  ^         ^      „  Julia  H.  Bayles 

Francis  G.  Turner  ^"    '      "'  (Mr'i  Tampi^ 

ADMITTED  ON    PROFESSION  vivirs.  james; 

Nov.  29,  1S33.  Malsey  Maria  Edwards  Eliza  H.  Miller 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  ^^^'■y  El^^^'^^th ''''"'^^e''  Oct.    5,    1S36. 

William  Wurts  Ma^y  Wanton  Dennis  admitted  on   profession 

Elizabeth  Ewing  Wurts       Benajah  F.   Leonard  Lucinda  Barley 

(Mrs.  W.)  admitted  by  certificate  admitted  by  certificate 

Caroline  Wurts  Hannah  F.  Leonard  Mary    Mercein 

ElUzabeth  W.  Neil  '  Charles  F.  Park  (Mrs.  Thos.  R.) 

Willis  Lord  ^       .,    ,       „   ^  Tamp«  Ttsp 

Apnl  6,  1836.  James  case 

Jan.    31,    1834.  admitted  on  profession  J°"I^  " .  Crane 

admitted  on  profession  Anabella  M.  Taylor  jj^^    ^^  ^j,^ 

Wm.  D.  Waterman  Selina  Hoe  admitted  by  ceutificaTB 

Benajah    Smith  admitted  by  certificate  Mrs.    Eunice    Stebbins 

.     .  Joseph  Giraud  Maria  Stebbins 

■■  Sarah    Maria    Giraud  Elizabeth  Malcolm 

admitted  by  CERTIFICATE  *     /ht  t       \  r-   tu      ■         sr    1 

Rebecca  Laird  ^  ^°^-^  Catharine  Malcom 

William  S.  Williams  James   H.   Sayre 

Oct.   2,  1834.  r         00^  Hannah  Sayre 

June  8,  1S36.  ....       T  TT  N 

ADMITTED  by  CERTIFICATE  (Mrs.  J.  H.) 

c      r-  ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  e      1  tt  .  1  1  ■ 

busan  Coursen  _,.     ,    ,,   c.  j  Samuel  Hotchkiss 

o.     ,       ,,..  ,  Elizabeth  Steward  -.ir-i,-        o 

Stephen  Wickes  _        .   ht   ht     j  William  Seymour 

T-.     -J  -iTtri.-.  Enoch  M.  Mead  ^ 

David  White  Elizabeth  Mead  J^""  ^""  Seymour 

Oct.  8.  1834.  (Mrs.  E.  M.)  <^^"-  ^^"^•> 

ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  Robert  p.   Williams  p^j,    _    ^^  _ 

Nathaniel  L.  Griswold  j^j^   ^g^   ^g.^^  admitted  on  profession 

Ann  Knowles  admitted  on  profession  John  Newton  Stickney 

Dec.  10,  1834.  Charlotte  Ham.ilton  admitted  by  certificaTB 

admitted  on  profession    admitted  by  certificate  Richard  Cole 

Charles  Buck  Nathaniel  T.  Jennings  Jane  Cole  (Mrs.  R.) 

Hiram  Barney  Maria  Jennings  James  Harper 

(Mrs.  N.  T.)  Elizabeth  Harper 

admitted  BY  certificate     .  ivr     T  ■  rT.r  t        n 

A,r        T>     ji      r.       -11  Anna  AL  Jennings  (Mrs.  Jas.) 

Mary  Bradley  Burnll  r^,      ,        V.   .>       .  .,,,,,   ^  '^ 

(Mr     S  N  ■)  Charlotte  B.  Jennings  Alfred  M.  Coffin 

T-j        J  Ti    '  i'     '  Catharine  L  Jennings  Frederick  Somers 

Edward  Boynton  t     t.      tj  n  -o-a        j  r>     1 

Joshua  Hall  Edward  Buck 

April  9,  1835.  Harriet   C.    Hall  Henrietta  Buck 

admitted  by  certificate  (Mrs.  Joshua)  (Mrs.  Dr.  Gurdon) 

Morgan  L.  Candee  Catharine  Mulligan  Elizabeth  L  Field 


228 


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Maria  Field  Franklin  Knight 

Mary  Clark  Annabella  E.  Howland 

Abby  W.  Howland 
April  6,  J837.  Anna  Bloomfield 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Dr.  Horace  Green 
Eli  Mygatt,  Jr. 
Nathaniel  Woodhull 

Howell,    Jr. 
John  V.  Brewer 
Mary  Broomfield  Brower 

(Mrs.  Jno.) 


June  7,   1838. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

Caroline  Lydia  Griffen 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
George  Griffen 
Dec.  5,   1837.  Lydia  Griffen 

ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  (Mrs.  Geo.) 

Sarah  Lang 
Elizabeth  Davis  Q^t    ^^^  jg^g_ 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE    ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATB 


Olivia  Brown 

(Mrs.   Silas) 
Emily  M.  Brown 
Allen  H.  Brown 
Eunice  Ripley  Nelson 

(Mrs.  John  G.) 
Abby  Whitehorn 

June   14,    1837. 


Nancy  Shepherd 
Mary  Avery 
Isabella  Smith 
Edward  B.  Pease 
Elizabeth  C.  Cooper 
Mary  S.  Cooper 
Clara  Pierson 
Caroline  Wakeman 


Feb. 


1838. 


ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION    ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Jane  Jewett  (Mrs.  N.  H.)   Alfred  Mulligan 
ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE    ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Samuel  D.  Green 


John  Selby 

Sarah  Selby  (Mrs.  Jno.) 

Catharine  Ann  Hanna 

(Mrs.  Jno.) 
Charles  H.  Kellogg 
Harriet  Kellogg 

(Mrs.  Chas.  H.) 
Lorenzo  Snow 
Geo.  W.  Snow 

Feb.  7,  1839. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 


Martin  W.  Emmons 
Caroline  Ann  Emmons 

(Mrs.  M.  W.) 
Orren  Thompson 
Love  Thompson 

(Mrs.  Orren) 
Catharine  P.  Brown 
James  J.  Tracey 
Charlotte  Niven 
Abraham  Van  Duyn 

Aug.  10,  1837. 


J.  Howard  Williams 
Jesse  Connor 
Jeremiah  I.  Grenough 
Benjamin  L.  Swan 
Mary  Childs  Swan 
(Mrs.  B.  L.) 
Josephine  Robinson  Shall 
Nancy  W.  Nee 
Marshall  Bronson  Blake 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATB 

Nancy  Holmes 
Nancy  King 

(Mrs.  Hy.  H.) 
Mary  Henderson 

April    II,    1839. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSIOK 

Ann  D.  Lee 

(Mrs.  David) 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Albert  Beach 


April  5,  1838. 
ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  ^ancy  Wade  Halsted 
(Mrs.  N.  M.) 


Nathan  H.  Jeweft 
Francis  Robert  Masters 

Oct.  4,   1837. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

David  Johnson  Halsted 
Ann  Burnst 
Louisa  M.  Howland 

(Mrs.  G.) 
Eliza  Jane  Niven 
Caroline  E.  Doremus 


Gilbert  Mollison 
Peter  Parkson 
Sarah  Ann  Hudson 

(Mrs.  L.) 
Jennette   C.   Green 

(Mrs.  J.  W.) 
Adeline  Divine 
Mary  Ann  Havens 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Bartholemew  Brown 
Lucy  P.  Trowbridge 
Maria    Brower    Whitney 

June  S.   1839. 
ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Myron  Crafts 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  L.  W.  Hall 


Jno.  P.  Lester 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Wm.  R.  Murphy 
Dr.  Vernor  Cuyler  Jeremiah  Wilbur 

Caroline  Culyer  (Mrs.  V.)  Sarah  R.  Wilbur 


Dr.  Charles  E.  Pierson 
Ann  M.  Pierson 

(Mrs.  E.  E.) 
Nathaniel  Wilson 
Sarah  Ann  Wilson 

(Mrs.  N.) 


(Mrs.  J.) 
Mrs.  Agnes  K.  Stuart 
Ellen  Anderson 
Sarah  H.  Lambdin 
Frances  Bosworth 
James  Matthews 


Jared  W.  Tracey 

Aug.  2,  1S39. 
ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

David  L.  Moore 
John  S.  Moore 
John  W.  McWilliams 
Ebenezer  Beadleston 
Mary  Beadleston 
(Mrs.  E.) 


Jfiftf)  avenue  pte0liptetian  Ci)urcf) 


229 


Oct.  JO,  J839.  Lucretia  G.  Hustace 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  (Mrs.  D.) 


Mrs.   Mary   Brower 

Mann 
Mrs.  Jane  Taylor 

Dec.  II,  1839. 


Ann  Maria  Callender 
(Mrs.  Wm.) 

Elizabeth    Auchincloss 
(Mrs.  Jno.) 

Rebecca  Buck 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Sarah   Griswold 


Daniel  Church,    Jr. 
(j€orge  Douglass 
Mary  Douglass 

(Mrs.  Geo.) 
Elizabeth  Douglass 
Jane  M.  Douglass 
James  P.  Wallace 
Emmeline  V.  W.  Snow 

(Mrs.  Geo.  W.) 
Mary  Davenport 


Giles  F.  Ward 
Lucy   B.   Ward 
Charles  Smith 
Sophia  Mygatt 

(Mrs.  Eli) 
Elizabeth  H.  Miller 

April  8,  1841. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

Mary  Bronson 
Margaret  E.  Beers 
"Catharine  H.  Lambdin 
Ann  Mclntyre 
Jane  Thompson 


Jane  Phyfe 

Jeannette  Phyfe 

Anna  Auchincloss  Masters^ 

Isabella  Brown 

Mary  Ann  Brown 

Catharine  Eliza 

Cowenhoven  June  10,  1841. 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE    ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

John  D.  Vermeule  Francis  H.  Ammindon 

.        DrusillaD.  Beach  Ann  Ammindon 

Sarah  C.  Howell  Mulligan g^^^j^  p^^^  (Mrs.  F.  H.) 

(Mrs.  H.  S.)  Gurdon  Burchard 

July  24,  1840.  Samuel  W.  Seloy 

Feb.    5,    J840.  ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Samuel  T.  Bull 
Juliet  E.  Snow  Benjamin  H.  Bodwell 

(Mrs.  Lorenzo)         Abraham   Richards 
Sarah  Richards 

(Mrs.  A.) 
Anna  Crawford 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATS 

George  McKenzie 
Jane   McKenzie 

(Mrs.  Geo.) 


April  7,  1840. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 
Charles  N.  Fearing 
Mary  Fearing 

(Mrs.  C.  N.) 
Augustus  W.  Saxton 
James  Wilde,  Jr. 
Linson  D.  F.  Jennings 
Thos.  F.  R.  Marcein 
Caroline  A.  Edwards 
Mary  Hunting 
Caroline  Matilda  Burrill 
Sarah  Ann  Potts 
Eliza  A.  Ludlow 
Hannah  Marshall 
Mary  Elizabeth  Brown 
Emily  Robb 
Catharine  H.  Beers 
Frances  M.  Doremus 
Cecila  K.  Leavitt 
Eliza  S.  Leavitt 


Oct.  5,  18 


Aug.  5,  1S41. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Dr.  John  G.  Cumming 


ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  Thomas  Selby 


William  Libbey 
Emily  Keese  Bailey 
Mary  Deming 
Elizabeth  Ely  Mulligan 
Elizabeth  Hinsdale 


Harriet  Reeves 
Ann  Henry 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Dr.  James  Kennedy 
Julia  Kennedy  (Mrs.  J.) 
ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  W'ilKam  Scribner 
John  Phyfe  Mary  Ann  Burbridge  Coit 

Jane   Phyfe    (Mrs.   J.)  (Mrs.  Gurdon) 

Lydia  M.  Coffin 

Dec.  8,  1841. 

Dec.   10,   1840.  ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

ADMITTED  ON   PROFESSION  Sarah  Bailey  (Mrs.  Wm.) 
Frederick  W.  Wolcott 


Mary  P.  Andrew 
Matilda  Auchincloss 
Catharine  Mitchell 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

James  McBrair 
Henry  Starr,  Jr. 
Richard  Cole 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE    ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  David  L.  Moore 


Henry  K.  Bull 
Ann  S.  Libbey 


Henry  Andrew 
Catharine  Andrew 

(Mrs.  Henry) 
June  II,  1840.  Ann  B.  Andrew 

ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  Catharine  E.  Andrew 
John  Wurts  Eleanor  P.  Andrew 

Alexander  A.  Meldrum       A.  T.  Hicks 
William  Hinsdale  Frederick  S.  Agate 


Mrs.  Eliza  Thompson 
Julia  Ann  Ley 

Feb.  II,  1842. 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Ann  Coit  (Mrs.  Henry) 
Frances  R.  Coit 
Elizabeth  M.  Coit 


230 


Centennial  Celefttation  of  tfie 


William  Chauncey 
Julia  Ann  Chauncey 

(Mrs.  Wm.) 
Ann  Bolton  (Mrs.  Curtis) 
Mary  Mulligan 
H.  J.  Raymond 
Evelyn  Caspar 

April  7,  1842. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

John  S.  Jenkins 
Robert  Ayres 
Azelia  Giraud 
Jane  Ranton 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Agnes  Galley 
Ann  Eliza  Dolson 

(Mrs.  Wm.) 
Elizabeth  Ruton 
Mary  Requa 
Maria  Elizabeth  Kerr 

Richards  (Mrs.  Jas.) 
Fanny  Hewlett 

(Mrs.  Thomas) 
William  R.  Waller 
Watson  E.  Case 
Alfred  Cobb 
Juliet  Wallace 

(Mrs.  Jas.  P.) 

June  g,  1842. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Jane  Floyd  (Mrs.  Jas.) 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATS 

Nancy  Brown 

(Mrs.  Allen) 
Harriet  Green 

(Mrs.  Horace) 
Dr.  George  Harrall 
Charlotte  Harrall 

(Mrs.  Geo.) 
Nathaniel  B.  Boyd 
Thomas  F.  Welch 

Aug.  IS,  1B42. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Mandlebert  Canfield 
Anna  W.  Canfield 
(Mrs.  M.) 
Samuel  A.  Beekmm 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Hannah  Ireland 

(Mrs.  Geo.) 
Eliza  Dick 
James  E.  Goddard 


Oct.  7,  1842. 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Ralph  Rawdon 
Susan  Rawdon 

(Mrs.  Ralph) 
Lucy  Ann  Kellogg 
Sarah  Ann  Phelps 
Catharine  Payne 
Louisa  Hality 
Hugh  Smith  Carpenter 
Thomas  Rowell 


George  Morgan 
Thomas  H.  Field 
George  H.  Brown 
Lewis  W.  Seaver 
Elias  Brown 
Anastasius  Nicols 
Jane  Black 
Adeline  Phyfe 
Caroline  Noyes 
Mary  Stewart 
Elizabeth  Vorhees 

Dec     7     1842  ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATS 

ADMITTED  'on   PROFESSION  ^^'^  Comcrville 

Lucinetta  Halsted  . 

Aug.  II,  184?. 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE    ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSIOK 

David  Reynolds  H.  William  A.  Atwatcr 

Sutherland  John  Griswold 

Charles  Heath  Isabella  Nicholson 

Pamela  Heath 

Oct.  5,   iS43- 
Feb.  7,   1843. 

'  ^■^  ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

ADMITTED  ON   PROFESSION  j^^uisa  Anna  Brown 
Elizabeth  Field  ^^^^_  ^^.^^^ 

Jane  Roderick  tt       ■  ....    r^   v> 

Henrietta  C.  Brov.'n 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Joanna  Bethune  Dec.  7,  1843. 

(Mrs.  Divie)  admitted  on  profession' 

Julia  Ann  Wetmore  Robert  Mclntyre 

Frances  Staples  ComstockAmos  Johnson,  D.  D. 
Luke  Dorland  George  H.  Jennings 

Jane  Haight  admitted  by  certificate 

April  6,  1S43.  Henry  B.  Atkins 

admitted  on  profession  George  M.  McLean,  M.D. 


Oliver  B.  Strong 
Margaret  Strong 

(Mrs.  O.  B.) 
Benjamin  A.  Norrell 
Horatio  Brown 
J.  A.  F.  Douglass 
Caroline  Louise  Dayton 
Mary  Ann  Kerr 

admitted  by  certificate 
Maria  Louisa  Howland 
Lydia  Ann  Lee 

June  8,  1843. 

ADMITTED    on     profession 

Thomas  M.  Smith 
Mary  Ann  Smith 

(Mrs.  T.  M.) 
Eliza  Keeler  (Mrs.  J.) 
Elizabeth  Haggerty 

(Mrs.  Michael) 
Ann  Mclntyre 

(Mrs.  Robt.) 


John  H.  Sherman 
Thomas  Hunt  Shafer 
George  Seely 
David  Townsend 

Feb.  5,   1844. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Henry  C.  Sheldon 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE, 

Nancy  R.  Selby 

(Mrs.  Jno.) 
Juliette  Raymond 

(Mrs.  H.  J.) 

April  10,  1S44. 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
J.  Orville  Taylor 
William  Murray 

June  ,s,   1S44. 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Thomas  G.  Wall 


Sf'iUb  avenue  Pre0&gtcrian  Cljurcf) 


231 


Aug.  8,  1844.  Henrietta  Farlass 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATB  (Mrs.  Jas.) 


James  M.  Prescott 
Ann  R.  Prescott 

(Mrs.  J.  M.) 
Catharine  E.  Swain 

(Mrs.  J.  P.) 
Ellen  M.  Prescott 

Nov.  6,  1S44 


Catharine  Pierson 
James  S.  Polhemus 
Ann  Eliza  Polhemus 
(Mrs.  J.  S.) 

March  6,   1845. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Thomas  Wood 


ADMITTED  ON   PROFESSION  J^"^^^  ^enry  Pooley 


Margaret  Cosgrove 

(Mrs.  F.) 
John  Drummond 
Lucy  Ann  Drummond 

(Mrs.  Jno.) 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Mrs.  Margaret  Kay 
Henry  G.  DeForest 
William  I.  Stedman 
Mrs.   Elizabeth  Wikoff 
Mrs.  Clara  Wakeman 
Mary  Rea 
Lucy  S.  Mills 
Thomas  C.  Chalmers 
Margaret  Chalmers 

(Ivlrs.  Thos.  C.) 


Henry  A.  Underwood 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Jan.    8,    1846. 

Joseph  W.  Pierson  admitted  on   profession 

Anna  S.  Galley 

XMrs.  Jas.) 
George  E.  Hawes 


May  7,  1845. 
admitted  on  profession 
ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Henry  Ward  Law 


Samuel  F.  Greenleaf 
William  H.  Dayton 
Emily  Dayton 

(Mrs.  W.  H.) 
Helen  F.  Field 

(Mrs.  Edward) 
Edward  W.  Coleman 
Elizabeth  C.  Alexander 

(Mrs.  James  A.) 
Edward  Wall 
Edwin  R.  McGregor 

Jan.  g,   1845. 

ADMITTED   on    PROFESSION 

Daniel  S.  Briant 
Eliza  R.  Briant 
Charlotte  W.  Edgerton 

(Mrs.  L.) 
Margaret  Watson 

(Mrs.  A.) 
Margaret  J.  Watson 
Marrianne  Watson 
William  H.  H.  Moore 


James  Forest 
Margaret  Forrest 
Agnes  A.  Cooper 

(Mrs.  J.  W.) 
Thomas  Walker 
Susan  Walker 

(Mrs.  Thos.) 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATS 
Robert  I.  Brown 
Ann  C.  Brown 

(Mrs.  R.  J.) 
Marian  C.  Brown 
Martha  W.  Stewart 
Herman  B.  Sears 
Maria  Van  Volkenburgh 

July  II,    1845. 


Mrs.  Ellen  Keith 
Mary  Ann  McGrah 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Adelim  Smith 

(Mrs.  Jas.  Y.) 
William  Bannard 
Mrs.  Frances  M. 

Denniston 
Mrs.  Emily  W.  St.  John 
Miss  Amelia  Ketchum 
William  Forest,  Jr. 
Robert  W.  Mead 
Mrs.  R.  W.  Mead 
Clarissa  Mead 
Samuel  Jewett 
Mrs.  S.  Jewett 
Elizabeth  Jewett 


William  Forrest 
ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATS  ^^^^^  Oakley  Forrest 
Samuel  W.  Selby 


ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  Isaac  Otis 
William  Scott  Tryphenia  Otis 

Elizabeth  Scott  Henry  W.  Mead 

(Mrs.  Wm.)  jaj^es    Von    Eeuren 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Mrs.   J.    Von    Beuren 
Mary  L.   Von  Beuren 


Ann  E.  Selby 

(Mrs.  S.  W.) 
Ann  Calender 

(Mrs.  Thos.) 
Jane  Renwick 
Isabella  Smedberg 

(Mrs.  Chas.  S.) 
Jane  Renwick  Smedberg 
David  Stevens 
Mary  I.  Stevens 

(Mrs.  David) 
Edgar  W.  Woods 
Thomas  Hunt  Shafer 


(Mrs.  Wm.) 
Emil  Forrest 
Eliza  Debow  Forrest 
William  Sloane 
Euphemia  (Mrs.  Wm.) 
William  O.  Lamson 
Robert    AL    Leckie 
Ann  Robison 
David  Patterson 
Elizabeth  Patterson 
(Mrs.  D.) 
Oct.  31,   1845. 
ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  Mrs.  Isabella  Gumming 
Robert  1.  Brown  Marshall  Gumming 


March  5,  1846. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Barbara  G.  Gumming 
Grace  G.  Gumming 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATB 

William  C.  Hickok,  M.D. 
Laura  A.  Hickok 

(Mrs.  Wm.  C.) 
Mrs.  Anna  Halsted 
Mary  Ann  Wray 
William  A.  Wheelock 
Elizabeth  Libby 


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John  I.  Wilson 
Elizabeth  Wilson 
Elizabeth  A.  Hawes 

(Mrs.  Geo.  E.) 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  Mott 

May  6,  1846. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Harriet  Romeyn 

Auchincloss 
Julia  Beers 
Amelia  Morgan 
Anna  Jewett 
Catherine  Stewart 
Mary  S.  Briant 
Matilda  Bailey 
Deborah  Ann  Stine 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATS 

A.  U.  Littlejohn 
Birdseye  Blakeman 
Benjamin  Blakeman 
William    C.    VanHorn 
Catharine  VanHorn 

(Mrs.  Wm.  C.) 
Clarissa  C.  Holman 
Phillip  W.  Roberts 
Horatio  Smith 
Mrs.  Sarah  Louisa 

Bennett 
Nathan  L,ane 
Emma  Lane  (Mrs.  N.) 
Charles  Scribner 
Aaron  Brown 
Dudley  Babcock 
Mrs.  Ann   Babcock 
Mrs.  Frances  A.  Stanton 
Harriet  M.  Babcock 

July   10,    1846. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 
John  Welsh 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Ann  Montgomery 

Thompson 
Sarah  Crane 

(Mrs.  Jno.  T.) 
Josiah  B.  Mann 
Mary  Whitney  Mann 

(Mrs.  Jos.  B.) 
Joseph  R.  Mann 
William  S.  Libbey 
Elizabeth  Libbey 

(Mrs.  W.  S.) 
Mary  Virginia  Libbey 
Ann  Etisworth 


Catherine  M.  Ensworth 
Mary  B.  Ensworth 

Sept.  p.  J846. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

Caroline  G.  Burrill 
Margaret  Kaylor 

Nov.  5,  1846. 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Mrs.  Jerusha  A.  Scott 
Norman  Boardman 
Minor  H.  Fowler 
Anna  Y.  Boardman 
Mrs.  Sarah  C.  Still 

Jan.  7,  1847. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

John  Thomas 
Joseph  A.  McDougall 
Francis  Speir 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Josiah  S.  Leveritt 
Sarah  Blunt 

(Mrs.  Samuel) 

March  11,  1847. 
Maria  VanDoren 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIPICATS 

Sarah  Gray 
Sarah  Maria  Ellett 

May  6,  1847. 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

James  Henderson 
Edward  D.  Fitch 
Thomas  J.  Ford 
Jane  Ford   (Mrs.  Thos.) 
Sarah  Ann  Beers 

July  8,  1847. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 
Mrs.  Marion  Hewitt 
Sophia  C.  Freeman 
Jane  L.  Bailey 
Jonathan  G.  Little 
William  Berwick 
Ellen  Duncan  Farmer 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Paul  Werth 
Luke  B.  Case 
Mary  A.  Case 

(Mrs.  Luke  B.) 
T.  D.  Lander 
Justine  V.  Lander 

(Mrs.  T.  D.) 
Harriet  A.  Lander 


Ann  Robertson  Hall 
Elias  Osborn 
Eliza  Weeks  Osborn 
(Mrs.  E.) 

Sept.  9,  1847. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

Joseph  R.  Mann 
William  Bannard 
Thompson  Rowell 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
R.  D.  Lathrop 
Mrs.  R.  D.  Lathrop 

Nov.  II,  1847. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

Mrs.  Isabella  Tunison 
Mrs.  Eleanor  A.  Scott 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICAT8 

Delilu  Shafer 
Catherine  E.  Shafer 
Charles  Stewart 
Mary  Stewart 

(Mrs.  Chas.) 
Daniel  D.  Sahler 
Clara  P.  Riley 
Mrs.  Sarah  Grenleaf 
Elizabeth  Berry 
Robert  M.  Oliphant 
Mary  Sophia  V. 

Olyphant 
Benjamin  Douglass 
Elizabeth  Douglass 

(Mrs.  Benj.) 
Mrs.  Mary  S.  Ball 

Jan.  6,  184S. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

JosephWamock 
ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Martha  Ann  Townsend 
Isabella    A.    McWilliams- 

At water   (Mrs. 

Wm.  L.  Atwater) 
Mary  Ann  Johnson 
Margaret  Ferguson 
Mrs.  Margaret  Voorhees 
Mrs.  Sarah  Ann  Lindsay 
Thomas  Miller  Nimmo 
March   9,   1848. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

Abram  Wakeman 
Mary  Wakeman 
(Mrs.  A.) 
David  Edwards 
Eliza  Mulligan 


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ADMITTED  BY  cErTificaTB  Anna  Davidson  admitted  by  certificaTB 

Rachel  S.  Wright  (Mrs.  John)  Mrs.  Margaret  McKay 

(Mrs.  Ellis)  John  Sequier,  Jr. 

Henry  N.  Beach  ^^''^  7,   1850. 

May  10,  1848.  Martha  W.  Beach  admitted  on  puofession 

ADMITTED  ON   PROFESSION  Daniel  Halsey 

Mary  Ann  Holt  Jan.  11,   1849.  admitted  by  certificate 

(Mrs.  Henry)  admitted  on  PROFESSION  Anna  Eliza  Halsey 

Mrs.  Catherine  Falconer     Cornelia  Sherman  (Mrs.  Daniel) 

William  Howard  Francis  P.  Colton 

July  14,   1850. 
admitted  by  certificate  admitted  by  certificate 

c  I  T     TIT  11  -SI  TT  4.1,          \\r      s-  ADMITTED  BY  certificate 

Samuel  L.  Morrell  Mrs.   Esther    W.  Airey      ,,,0  nr   t^  j 

-,         ,        _       .  »r       nr     ■     A    'T     1  Mrs.  Susan  M.  Eastmond 

Mary  Ann  Cuming  Mrs.  Maria  A.  laylor 

„  Jasper  W.  McGregor  Nov.  8,  1850. 

p  .  7,       4^.  Cornelius  Kendall  ADMITTED  on   profession 

ADMITTED    ON    profession  r.  ,,  \i  J  fi-       u    <^u    t  -uu 

„.        „  Susan  Mary  Alexander  Elizabeth  Libbey 

Edgar  Crapo  /at      ^jr     ^ 

-,         T         r-     J                                  ,1-               o  (Mrs.  Wm.) 
Mary  Jane  Cordon                           Mar.  g,   1849. 

Colin  E.  Sheldon  admitted  on   profession  March  6,  1S51. 

admitted  by  certificate  Hsl^"  Lamb  admitted  by  certificatr 

Robert  McFarlan  ^^^  Eyck  Sutphen  Harriet  E.  Wheelock 

Elizabeth  McFarlan  admitted  by  certificate  (Mrs.  Wm.  A.) 

Jane  Gerry  Robert  Gillan  j^^y  p    jg^j 

Elizabeth  Bishop  Smith  S.  W.  Neal  admitted  on  profession 

Susan  M.Smith  May  n,  1849.  Newton  Ammerman 

James   C.    Cobb,    M.D.  ■'  ^^ 

p        ..         „    ,  ,  \  ADMITTED    on    profession    ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

1  r  \  Sarah  J.  Doremus  Mrs.  Elizabeth  R. 

H  w    AiH      '  Catherine  Falconer  Raymond 

„      ,       „"  TT  .  . ,  •  Jane  Isabella  Falconer         Mrs.  Mary  E.  Edwards 

(jurdon  b.  Hotchkin  ,,       ,.         ^t       .  • 

„  ,  ^   -r  Mrs.  Jane  Hutchinson  ,   , 

Samuel  C.  Eogan  .        ,,..,  July    12,    1851. 

T   1      D  Jane  Wiley 

John  Ryers  admitted  by  certificate 

Mary  Woods  admitted  by  certificate  Mrs.  Sarah  H.  Wier 

Mrs.  Minerva  Hall  Wilson  Phraner 

Samuel  M.  Fasselt  7„;      ,    ,<,.„  ^'  '' 

\si       T(    n  17        f    Tvr  n  J^^y  ^,  1049-  admitted  by  certificate 

wm.   IJ.   uet' crest,   M.u.  admitted  on  profession  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Austin 
Mary  L.  DeForest  Washington  Frothingham  Mary  A  Austin 

(Mrs.  W.  B.)  „,.  „     ■    .  ^ 

„        ,,   .,.       ,  ADMITTED  BY  certificate  Ell  Benedict 

IT^-      \^'7     \  M"-  Sarah  Swick  Phoebe  Benedict 

ElmiraW  Kingsley  (Mrs.  E.) 

Anna  Graham  Sept.  5,  1849. 

ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  Dec.  II,  1851. 

Thaddeus  B.  Wakeman         admitted  by  certificate 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION  .^^.       ,  ^    p., 

William  J.  Hannington         admitted  by  certificate  V^/"  c    J?-i     ^"™^" 
TTi-     1    ^u -ijr   tr        •    _..       Henrv  A   Holt  Abia  S.  Gilman 

Elizabeth  W.  Hannmgton  ^'^"'^y  ■^- ^""  ,..       „,   „. 

/HI       inr    r  X  (Mrs.  W.  S.) 

(Mrs.  W.  J.)  No      8     S 

Mary  Jane  McBirnie  '    '  Jan.  8,  i8'i2. 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
admitted  BY  CERTIFICATE  John  A    Stewart  admitted  on   profession 

Joseph  N.  Sutphin  vVilliam  H.  Scott  f'^^  ^Z""'^^  ^'^^'' 

Joseph  Holmes  Davis  Ann  Jane  Scott  George  T.  Olyphant 

Emma  E.  Scribner  (Mrs.  W.  H.)  admitted  by  CERTIFICATE 

(Mrs.  Chas.)  David  Codwise 

Mrs.  Harriet  Sutphen  Jan.   11,   1850.  Martha  Codwise 

I.  S.  Jenkins  admitted  on  profession  (Mrs.  D.) 

John  Davidson  Eydia  Palmer  (Mrs.  B.)     Joseph  Hyde 


234 


Centennial  Cele&ration  ot  t|)e 


Catharine  Maria  Hyde 

(Mrs.  J.) 
Charles  McEwen  Hyde 
Catharine  Maria  Hyde 
William  Walker 
Caroline  L.  Walker 

(Mrs.  Wm.) 
Mary  Haines 
Julia   I.   Blake 
Agnes  Snell 
Eliza  Downer 
Edward  S.  Clarke 
David  Beattie 
Elizabeth  C.  Alexander 
Anna  M.  Young 

March  n,  1852. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Louisa  Jay  Bruen 
William  Irwin 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATS 

James  M.  Halsted 
Catharine  C.  Halsted 

(Mrs.  Jas.) 
Cecelia  Patterson 
Alexander  M.  Bruen 

May  6,  1852. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFSSSIOH 
Helen  Phyfe 
George  Buckham 
William  Paton 
Robert  P.  Haines 
Mary  Irvin 
Jessie  Allen 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIPICATB 

Mrs.  Charlotte  E.  M. 

Smith 
Lowell  Mason 
Maria  L.  Mason 

(Mrs.  Lowell) 
James  A.  Webb 
Phebe  Webb  (Mrs.  J.  A.) 
Mary  Webb 
Jeremiah  Baker 
Elizabeth  C.  Baker 

(Mrs.  Jer.) 
Mrs.  Margaretta  Webb 

July  10,   1852. 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATR 

Walter  D.   Stewart 
Emily  Stewart 

(Mrs.  W.  D.) 
Martha  \^anD!en 
Fcrdimnd  Baker 


John  G.  Parker 
Jane  Parker 

(Mrs.  Jno.  G.) 
Julia  E.  Parker 
James  Struthers 
Mary  Struthers 

(Mrs.  Jas.) 
William  H.  Adams 
Jennett  Adams 
Janette  Brown 

Nov.  II,  1852. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Mrs.  Caroline  Amelia 

Murray 
Ellen  Louisa  Lambert 
Eliza  Downer  Forbes 
Fidelia  W.  Leverett 
Georgiana  Buckham 
Jeremiah   C.   Lanphier 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Edward  Hall,  M.D. 
Mrs.  Margaret  Hall 
Robert  Bliss 
Mary  Stitt 
Henry  B.  Hyde 
Charlotte  B.  Crapo 
Mrs.  Lockwood  DeForest 
E.  Fitch  Smith 
Elizabeth  Smith 

(Mrs.   E.   F.) 
Elizabeth  E.  Smith 
Robert  L.  Stuart 
Mary  Stuart 

(Mrs.  R.   L.) 
Alexander  Stuart 
Alexander  W.  Murray 
George  Sloan 
Matilda  Sloan 

(Mrs.  Geo.) 
Hannah  Sloan 
Martha  Sloan 

Jan.  6,   1853. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

James  T.  Maxwell 
Emily  Auchincloss     MaX' 
well  (Mrs.  J.  T.) 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Michael  Young 
Sarah  Ann  Young 

(Mrs.  M.) 
Mrs.  Joanna  W.  P.  Peck 
Mrs.  Agnes  M.  Gibson 
Janet  F.  Gibson 
Henry  Day 


Phebe  L.  Day  (Mrs.Hy.) 
Edward  Field 
Mrs.  Harriet  J.  McMartin 
William  G.  Lambert 
Sarah  Lambert 

(Mrs.  W.  G.) 
Maurice  Wurts 
Robert  Gordon 
Melancthon  Jackson 
William  H.  Scott 
Ann  Jane  Scott 

(Mrs.  Wm.  H.) 
Benjamin  Douglass 
Elizabeth  Douglass 

(Mrs.  Benj.) 
David  Olyphant 
Harriet  T.  Olyphant 

(Mrs.  David) 
L   H.   Field 

March  10,  185$. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Bertram  Harrison 
Mrs.  Jane  P.  W.  Chester 
Benjamin  W.  Whitlock 
Amelia  M.  Whitlock 
(Mrs.  B.  W.) 
Helen  Ruth  Downer 
Caleb  T.  Smith 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Mrs.  Anne  S.  Paton 

Mrs.  Albertine  M. 
Harrison 

Mary  Dunkin 

Matilda   Dunkin 

Isabella  Dunkin 

George  F.  Chester 

Caroline  Hurry 

Thomas  S.  Young 

Mary  E.  Young 

(Mrs.   Thos.    S.) 

Mrs.  Sarah  Cowles 

Mrs.  VanDusen 

Silas  P.  Downer 

Sophia  Downer 

(Mrs.  Silas  P.) 

Henry  G.  Marquand 

Elizabeth   Ellen    Mar- 
quand (Mrs.  H.  G.) 

William  A.  Cummings 

Louisa  Cummings 
(Mrs.  W.  A.) 

William  Dodd 

Elizabeth  Ann  Dodd 
(Mrs.  Wm.) 


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235 


Mrs.  Mary  N.  Oliver 
Henry  Young 
Ann  M.  Young 
David  Sloane 
Charles  F.  Park 
Caroline  E.  Park 

(Mrs.  C.  F.) 
Frederick  W.  Macy 
Emily  Macy  (Mrs.  F.  W.) 
Andrew  Comstock 
Julia  M.  Comstock 

(Mrs.  A.) 

May  5,  1853. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

William  Harris 
Isabella  Stal  McCulloh 
George  Baylis 
Mrs.  Sarah  Jane  Case 


Adeline  Hurry 

(Mrs.  Wm.) 

Nov.  10,  1853. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Mary  Winslow  Corning 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Margaret  H.  Dye 
Mrs.  Ann  M.  Gray 
I\Irs.  Ruth  Terbell 
Henry  M.  Alexander 
Susan  Mary  Alexander 
Charles  F.  Porter 
Harriet  M.  Porter 

(Mrs.  C.  F.) 
Franklin  Chamberlin 
Mary  W.  Chamberlin 

(Mrs.  F.) 
Robert  McCarter 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

John  Paton 
Oliver  S.  Strong 
William  D.  Simonton 
Sarah  M.  Simonton 

(Mrs.  W.  D.) 
Mrs.  Matilda  Heath 
Peter  Nelson 
Catherine  Nelson 

(Mrs.  Peter) 
Horace  Hall 
Thomas  Gardiner 
Mrs.  Thomas  Gardiner 
Francis  Gross 
Mrs.  F.  Gross 
Daniel  S.  Briant 
Elizabeth  R.  Briant 
(Mrs.  D.  S.) 
Sarah  Baldwin 
James  O.  Forrest 
Moses  Allen  Hoppock 
Ellen  Louise  Hoppock 
(Mrs.  M.  A.) 


Jan.  5,  1854. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 
Henry  Carrington 
Alexander 
Henry  Buck  Auchincloss 
Ellen  Fairley 
Anna  W.  McMartin 
Mrs.  Agnes  Heglett 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Mrs.  Eliza  W.  Nevihs 
Eliza  C.  Winslow  Robert 
Jane  R.  Robert 
Beriah  Palmer 
Emily  Duncan 
Margaret  McBride 
Mrs.  Ann  Mitchill 
Eliza  D.  Delavan 
Hannah  Delavan 
Mrs.  Rebecca  Smallwood 


July  7,  1853. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Catherine  E.  Renfold 
Martha  H.  Andrew 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Dr.  Alfred  Freeman 
Eliza  Freeman 

(Mrs.  Alfred) 
John  D.  Merriellies 
Jane  Merrillies 

(Mrs.  J.  D.) 
William  Hurry 


March  9,   1854. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Mrs.  Sarah  Y.  Stewart 
jMargaret  Gordon 
Elizabeth  McMartin 
James  Eraser 
Gilbert  L.  Hall 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Robert  L.  Maitland 
Mary  Maitland 

(Mrs.  Robt.  E.) 

May    II,    1854. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Emma  Augusta  Hoppock 
Helen  Smith 


Martha  Young 
Mary  McFarlan 
Mary  Emma  Farwell 

July  7,  1854. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Mercedes    Glenton 
Mary  Amelia  Hyatt 
Emma  Hyatt 
Emily  Ferguson  Mann 
Margaret  Ogilvie  Mann 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICAT8 

Charles  Stoughton 
Mrs.  Aselia  Giraud  Wood- 
hull 

Sept.  7,  1854. 
ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATB 

Mrs.  Jane  P.  Bowie 
Nov.  8,  1854. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Sarah  Cleland 
Winthrop   S.   Oilman,   Jr. 
ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATB 

Mrs.  Jane  C.  Work 
Jan.   II,   1855. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 
John  S.  Lawrence 

Isaac  O.  Ogden 
Sarah  Downer 
Mary  Elizabeth  Whitaker 
Elizabeth  Moffat 
Frederick  Wm.  Downer 
Harriet   Josephine    Hyde 
Ellen  Fleming 

(Mrs.  James) 
Catherine  Winslow 
Downer 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Mrs.    Elizabeth   B. 

Townsend 
Elizabeth  Fairley 
Andrew  Mason 

March  8,   1855. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Moses  G.  Baldwin 
Mrs.  Mary  K.  Roberts 
Wm.  Henry  Richards 
Willett  Bronson 
ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Margaret  Coolidge 
(Mrs.    Hy.) 
Henry  Oothout 


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Centennial  Celeibration  of  tht 


Josephine   Oothout 

(Mrs.  Hy.) 
Samuel  D.  Davis 
Edward  H.  Owen 
William  L-  Skidmore 
Charlotte  H.  Freeman 
Skidmore  (Mrs. 
W.  L.) 
Isabella  Thompson 
Alexander  VanRenssalaer 
Mary  Howland  VanRens- 
salaer (Mrs.  Alex.) 

May    10,    1855. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Margaret  Jane  Scott 
Mary  Adams 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Silas  R.  Selden 

Irad  Hawley 

Sarah  Hawley  (Mrs.  I.) 

Dwight  Baker 

Jonathan  W.  Roberts 

Cornel  A.  Doolittle 

Harriet  V/.  Bell 

July  6,   1855. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Elisee  Charlier 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Mrs.  Little 
Edward  W.  Lambert 
William  Callender 
Maria  Callender 

(Mrs.  Wm.) 
James  Harrall 
Mrs.  Jas.  Harrall 
William  Vardell 
Susan  Vardell 

Nov.  8,  1855. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

Cornelius  R.  Agnew 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Alfred  Edwards 
Sophia  M.  Edwards 

(Mrs.  A.) 
John  Baird 

Agnes  Baird  (Mrs.  Jno.) 
Jane    Mulliner 
George  W.  Clarke 
Mary  I.  Clarke 
Mrs.  Arietta  A.  Kelly 
Alfred  Carhart 

Mrs.  Jane  Anderson 
Wm.  11.  Ludlum 


Julia  B.  Ludlum 

(Mrs.  Wm.  H.) 

Jan.  10,  1856. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Charles  C.  Wilcox 
Mary  May 
Henry  S.  Terbell 
Hannah  Dyer  Terbell 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Michael  Young 
Ann  Young  (Mrs.  M.) 
Mrs.  Julia  Ann  Blatchford 
Miss  S.  E.  Blatchford 
Mrs.  Julia  A.  Douglas 
Cyrus  Augustus  Smith 
Lucius  Hopkins 
Nancy  M.  Hopkins 

(Mrs.  L.) 
James  Bayles 
Julia  H.  Bayles 

(Mrs.  James) 
Thomas  S.  Adams 

Mar.    6,    1856. 
ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Frederick  G.   De  Graw 
John   J.   Crane 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Mrs.  Mary  C.  Andrus 
Isabella   Todd 
Mrs.   Eliza  S.  Holmes 
Mrs.    Sarah   Markoe 
Mrs.  Charlotte  A.  Markoe 
James  Wright 
Sarah   M.   Wright 
(Mrs.    Jas.) 
Francis    Markoe    Wright 
Mary    Nelson   Wright 


Lewis   Baylis 
Alexander    Proudfit    Irvin 
Mary   Clark 
Anna  Heyer  Clark 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATS 
Mrs.  Hannah  M.   Hall 
George    Baylis 
Charles   Mathews 
Mrs.  Virginia  R.  Osborne 
Edward    W.    French 
James    Scrymser 
Anna   Scrymser 

(Mrs.   Jas.) 

July    II,    l8s6. 
ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Mary  Nash   Agnew 

(Mrs.  C.  R.) 

Samuel  L.   Mitchill 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Sarah    W.    Perrine 
Louisa    Carrington 
Osborne 

Sept.   II,   1S56. 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

David   Irwin 

Jane  Irwin    (Mrs.   David) 

Matilda   Warnock 


May   8,    1856. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Daniel    Henry    Smith 
Mary    Frances    Smith 
Elizabeth    Aloore 
William    Philip    Heslog 
Lizzie   L.    Mehaffey 
Helen    Dunkin 
Arthur   Oilman 
George  Elias  Hawes 
Annie    Hawes 
William   H.    Beers 
Ethelin  E.  Beers 

(Mrs.    Wm.   H.) 
Sarah   Agnes    Sloane 
Catherine   Sloane 


Nov.   7,    1S56. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Maria   Banks 
Mrs.    Agnes    S.    Halsey 
Catherine  Nash 
Mrs.    Sarah    Owen 
Jane  Augusta  Owen 
Mrs.    Mary   Louisa 
Halsted 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Alice   Mcllwaine 
Mrs.   Julia   M.    Butler 
Margaret   Turner 
William    S.    Soutter 
Mrs.   Phebe  C.  Black 
Mrs.   Mary  Jessup 
Henry    M.    Halsey 
Jane    B.    Pickett 
Frances  E.   Wright 
Ebenezer    H.    Burger 
Sophia    Burger 
Mary  Burger 

(Mrs.    E.    H.) 
Andrew  D.   LilHe 
Mrs.    Elizabeth   M. 

Rowell 


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Jan.  8,   1857.  Margaret    Muir    Kirk-  John  Nelson  Low 

ADMITTED  ON   PROFBSSION  wood  (Mrs.  Jno.)  William   J.    Nevins 

John  Penfold  William  R.  Moore   (Jr.)  Catharine    Anna    Nevins. 

Harriet   Josephine   Caryl  Mrs.  Mary   E.   Howe  Ann  Maria  Mitchill 

Maria   Mollard  Mary  Louisa  Mitchill 

Ester  Russell  Waterman  '*'  ^^'  Margaret   Mitchill 

....     V  r..r...r.r.    tT'Z^""   "^    PROFESSION  ^  ^^  ^^ 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Alice    Young  TIT      /-        ,•  ■»»    ,^  -I 

Mrs.   Isabella  Gourlie  M.    Caroline    McCormick 
Jacob  H.  Patton                  n°'-f  T  Z  "''"^'"^''^  Sarah   Ann  Leverich 

Caroline   D.    Patton  ^,""'t  Tf%     H,  "^""^   ^"'^ 

(Mrs    T    H)  Elizabeth   C.  Hoadley  Henry    W.    Peck 

Jabes   Hazard  '       '  ^,.       }}''':    °"^^^^  M^^-  P^ebe  Ann  Penfold 

Margaret  H.   Lord  ty\'l?"r"''u     H,  ^"^   "^'"^  ^'°"" 

Elizabeth  C.   Hoadley  Sally  Coffield  Cox 

Mar.  5,  1857.  Jan.  7,   1858.  J^"^^^  ^hite 

ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  Elizabeth   White 
Elizabeth  L  Irwin  Ellen  Paddon  (Mrs.   Jas.) 

Mrs.   Mary  Elizabeth         Adolphus  Smedburg  Lucretia  Rachel  Mott 

Oakley  garah  Eraser    Stevenson  Charles    Day   Cowles 

Frances   Gordon  (Mrs.  Jas.   S.)  Peter   McMartin 

(Mrs.  R.)  Jane   McMartin 
T-,      •    J        A       *■                            ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  tti„,„„^„    Vo1I„ 

Dorinda   Austin  Ttr        c  r,     t  Florence   Kelly 

^  Mrs.    Susanna    P.    Lees  ^^  .,        r>     t 

Silas  Downer  „       u    t     c.       u.  Esther    R.    Leverett 

T      •       Tx         J         Sarah  J.    Stoughton  a      •     tt     t 

Laura  Louisa  Hazard        _,  t        ■  Annie   H.    Laurie 

Duncan   Laurie  „,        ,,  ,,,     , 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Patrick  Allen  ^^"Z.  ^^"^  ^°°^'^^ 

Edsall   Ferrier  Mrs.  Mary  Floyd  J^'^'^'Il  7^^°^ 

Howard   Crosby  Norwood  ^^"^  ^^^'"^ 

Mrs.  Margaret  E.  Crosby  (^^"-    ^m.) 

Mrs.  Helen  Ashton  Mar.  21,  1858.  Charles   Lamer 

Mrs.  Sophia  Smith  admitted  on  profession  Robert  L.  Stuart  Paton 

Mrs.    Burger  Henriette  Bayles  ^^^ry  Young 

Margaretta  I.   Day  ^rs.  Laura  G.  Graham 

May  7,  1857.  Olive   Harriman  Elizabeth   Fenton 

admitted  on  profession  Laura   Harriman  Sarah  Lee 

Mrs.  Emeline  Low  (Mrs.   O.)  Horace   I.   Fairchild 

Lucy   Baldwin    Hyde         James  R.  Jesup  Robert   W.    Halsted 

Sarah   Augusta    Burger     John  Stevens  William   A.  Halsted 

Andrew   GifTord   Agnew    Elizabeth  Nevina  James  W.   Alexander,  Jr. 

Robert  McCormick  Stephen  Rich  Struthers 

tT  TT  ,      T-1-      u    ^1-       ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE   a  c^      »i, 

Mrs.    Hannah    Elizabeth    ,^  .^     tt    t      j  Agnes   btruthers 

_  Margaretta  H.  Lord  „  t>    t  •   • 

Fenner  ,,,     ,   ,     t-j        j  Henry  P.    Livingston 

,,        „  Ti         ij      Alfred  L.  Edwards  ,.         .         _.,. 

Mrs.   Susanna  Reynolds    „      ,,,        -r,    r^       j  Mrs.  Ann  Eliza 
_             „                                   Dr.   Wm.    P.   Cassidy  -n       ,        ■, 

James  Stevenson  ,.       .     ...    .  Breckenndge 

r,        .         _,  Morns  W.  Lyon  ,.         „    ,--, 

Mrs.  Ann  Barry  t    t.  „      t>     t  Mary  E.    Sloane 

A    J  i>T  T,     •  Isabella   B.    Lyon  ,.  ,^ 

Andrew    Mcllvaine  ,,.        ,,       .     ,,,  ,  Mason   \  oung 

T  T.T  t,     ■  (Mrs.    Morris  W.)  ™,       ,  „., 

Jane  Mcllvaine  t    t    j,        t->  Theodore   Oilman 

,,,         »     J  V  J-  Ludlow  Durmont  „  -iXT^.-^- 

(Mrs.   And.)  :L  C    V       V      t  Henry  Whitm 

Horace   Howell  '  Mrs.  Caroline  Townsend 

Mrs.  Christina  McDonald  jj^^j,  ^^  ^5^5  Mrs.  Mary  Ann 

Miss  Eliza  Barnaby  admitted  on  profession  Monahan 

John   Haines  Phillis   Penny  Mrs.   Ann  Jane 

John  Twibill  Fanny  Tracy  Williamson 

admitted  by  CERTIFICATE  Mary  Jane   Whitlock  William   Isaac  Townsend 

John  Kirkwood  James  Low  Mary  Ann  McCalluin 


238 


Centennial  Celebration  of  the 


Jane  Annie  Scrymser 
Clarissa  Eliza  Brown 
Daniel  R.  Noyes,  Jr. 
Mrs.  Mary  E.   Hyatt 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATB 
L.    Amanda    Williams 
Mrs.    Sarah    E.    Lanier 
Mrs.    Mary   Louisa 
Fairchild 

July  8,   1S58. 
ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Mary   Norwood 
Elbert    Stewart 
William   M.    Cummings 
William   J.    Nevins,    Jr. 
Mrs.   Mary  Ann   Stead 
Emily  Norwood 
Helen   Stewart 
Richard   Burton 
Helen  Abia   Gilman 
Edward  L.   Owen 
Edith  N.  Macy 
Sarah  Richards   Beers 
James   H.   Young 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Mrs.  Emily  C.  Corwin 
Sept.  9,   1858. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Henrietta    Louisa   Scott 
Edward   Sturgis 
Henry   Haywood 
ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Charles   B.   Smith 
Oct.  8,   1858. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

David  Killock 
Joseph  Taylor 
Anna   Bella   Taylor 

(Mrs.  Jos.) 
Mrs.    Eliza   Kelly 
Mrs.   J.   Black 
Wm.    Baelz 

Mary  Baelz   (Mrs.  Wm.) 
David  Young 
Elizabeth   Young 

(Mrs.    David) 
Hendrick  Constantine 

Frerichs 
Henrietta    Wilhelmina 

Frerichs    (]\Irs. 

H.   C.) 
Thomas  Simpson 
Mrs.  Sarah  McNally 


Mrs.  Christiana  Richard   Moore 

Rutherford  Eliza  Hall 

Mrs.   Margaret  Kennedy  Mrs.  Maria  H.  Gassner 


Maurice    Marks 
James  Lcggatt 
John  De   Merseman 
Robert   Smith 
Margaret    Smith 

(Mrs.    R.) 
John   Quincey 
Mary  Ann  Quincey 

(Mrs  Jno.) 


Mary  Jane   Woodburn 
Mary   Jane    Ferguson 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Mrs.   Mary  Jane 

Robinson 
Jane    Grant 

Mar.   10,    1859. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 


Mrs.    Catharine  McLagan^iHiam   Stuart 

Auchincloss 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  TT      •,         r>    uv     nr     ii- 

T>T        nT         nr  Tj    1  Emily   Robb   Mulligan 

Mrs.    Mary   McFarlane       ^   ,.     ^^  * 

Julia   Hyatt 

Nov.  II,   1858.  Rebecca   Long 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION     ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Harriet  Louisa  Edwards  jyij-g.  Martha  A.  Leavitt 
Cornelius  Heyer  Clark  Mrs.  Margaret  Barbour 
Susan   W.    Irvin  Margaret   S.   Barbour 

Thaddeus   J.   Whitlock 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 


Mrs.  Elizabeth  B. 
Huntington 


Charles  A.   Silliman 
James  Johnstone 
Mrs.   Martha  W.  Lambert 
Israel  Minor 
Mrs.    Charlotte   Louisa 
Minor 
(Mrs.    Simon,   Jr.)  John  C.  Minor 
Henry  Heath 
Mrs.  Frances  E.  Heath 
Christiana  Bradner 
George   S.  Woodman 
Mrs.    Jane    L.    Woodman 
John    S.    Pierson 
ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Thomas  D.   Urmston 
Archibald    Sherrand 

May  5,   1859. 
Feb.  9,  i8s9-  admitted  on  profession 

ADMITTED  ON   PROFESSION  James   Beveridge 
Thomas  Cochran 


Mrs.    Sarah  Teefair 
Wm.  G.   Turner 
Gurdon    Burchard 
Simon  d'Visser   (Sr.) 
Simon  d'Visser   (Jr.) 
Sophia  d'Visser 


Jan.  6,  1859. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Rebecca   Matilda 

Edwards 
Mrs.  Emeline  Misner 


George   Anderson 
Sarah  Ann  Anderson 
Mathew  W.   Sampy 
Mary    Sampy 

(Mrs.   M.  W.) 
William   Muir 
Mrs.    Mary   Robinson 
Mrs.  Margaret  Lucas 
Mrs.   Marion  Warner 
Joseph   Williamson 
Thomas   Ross 
iMrs;    Sarah   McConnell 
Mrs.   Esther   Nelson 
Mrs.   Sarah  Williamson 
Mrs.  Ann  Atkinson 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Henry  C.  Whitmarsh 
Leonard  A.   Bradley 
John  Kennedy 
Mrs.    Jane   Hutchinson 
Mary  A.    Hutchinson 

June   15,   1859. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Mrs.   Mary  Ann  Twibill 
Mrs.    Christiana   Briands 
John   Sterling 
Janet   Sterling 

(Mrs.   Jno.) 


ififtl)  atienue  Pregtipterian  Ci)urcJ)         239 


Amelia   Starr  Jan.    lo,    1861.  Dr.  Isaac  E.  Taylor 

Letitia    Crawford  admitted  on   profession  Mrs.   M.   J.   Taylor 

David   Gassner  Oscar  Smedberg  William  Piatt,  Jr. 

Elizabeth  Gall 

Nov.    2,     1859.  Q^t    p^  ^g^^_ 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION  p^b.    (,^     j86j.  ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Mrs.    Adeline   Hawkins      admitted  on  profession  Martha  J.  Danforth 
John    Atherton  John    Inglis  Catherine  E.  Campbell 

Mary   Ann   Atherton         Agnis  Inglis  Allan  Stirling 

(Mrs.   Jno.)  Letitia  A.  Rutherford 

f-Kf      T       D  \  admitted  by  certificate 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATS  (Mrs.  Jas.  R.)  „  ,011. 

T,.         „,.     .      ,     ^  _,.      TT     1  isamuel  Lockburn 

Mrs.    Elizabeth  G.  Eliza  Heslop  ^        ^     ,,  ..,       ^  . 

M   •  ATVT       Tir       r.  \  J^"^  Cockburn  (Mrs.  S^) 

Nairne  (Mrs.  Wm.  P.)  ^ 

John  Alexander  Perry       Mrs.  Catharine  R.  ^^^,    .    ^g^ 

Agnes  Perry  (Mrs.  J.  A.)  Masters  admitted  on'  profession 

James   Massie  Mrs.  Abigail  R.  Olmsted  E;nima   Galbraith 

Ann   W.    Massie  Mrs.  Nancy  Leonard  Mary  Ann  Kelly 

(Mrs.   Jas.)  admitted  by  certificatb  admitted  by  certificatb 

Nov.   10,   1859-  J°''"  Forsyth  Herman  B.  Sears 

admitted  on  profession  ■""'^^  -E.  Forsyth  Mrs.  Catharine  Nash 

Mrs.    Catliarine  B.  (Mrs.  Jno.)  Mary  Augusta  Sears 

Lockwood  William  Keith  j^j^g^  Annie  B.  Jessup 

admitted  BY  certificate  March  6,1861.  j^„    ^    ^5^^ 

Mrs.  Jennet  F.   R.  Bhss    ^omi„ed  on  profession  admitted 'on  profession 

Feb.  8,  i860.  Robert  L.  Smith  VV„_  Vernon,  Jr. 

admitted  on  pbofsssiok   admitted  by  certificatb  Fanny  Nott 
John   Thompson  Alice  Smedberg  admitted  by  certificatb 

Stewart    Shirley  (Mrs.  Oscar)  ^^j-y  G.  Fowler 

(Mrs.  Jno.)  j^^^   ^^^    jg^^^  Virginia  Penny 

John   Shirley  admitted  on   profession  Anthony  Arnoux 

Mrs.    Margaret   Kidd         James  H.  Walker  Clementine  W.  Arnoux 

Moore  John  F.  Aiken 

admitted  by  CEBTIFICATS    .       ,  T    TT 

admitted  by  certificate  tt  a    tt     iu   ^  Andrew  J.  Herrick 

T-i    r-,1     u     ^  ir  -1  Henry  A.  Hurlbut 

D.   Olyphant  Vail  ,,        %,   tt     ,t 

Susan  R.  Hurlbut  ^^^    ^^   ^^^^ 

^'"■-  7-  ^S6o.  (Mrs.  H.  A.)  ^.^mitted  on   profession 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Mrs.  Anna  D.  Thomson       j^hn  Thomas  Stanley 

Margaret   E.    Baird  Mrs.  Ophelin  Sayre  Andrew  Knox 

May    10,    i860.  ^""'y  A.  Sayre  Edward  Roe 

ADMITTED  ON   profession  Elizabeth  H.  Sayre  Eleanor  Moore 

Elizabeth    W.    Wheelock  J°hn  Seaman  Isabella  McEeod 
CMrs     Tno     W  ")       Mrs.  Jno.  Seaman 

V    ii=>.    JUL..     Ml.,  ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Elizabeth   Hoppock  j„„^  ^^  ^5^^  Catharine  Laird 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE    ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

William    Irwin  William]  Collins                                March  6.   1S62. 

June  6,  i860.  Catharine  Coilins                   admitted  on   profession 

ADMITTED  CM    profession  (Mrs.  Wm.)               Theodore  M.  Nevins 

Mrs.   Sophia  Herring  Thomas  A.  Reynolds            Mary  Struthers 

Mrs.    Mavia  Jones  admitted  by  certificate  T"'  f."^''  f ""  ^T"'^ 

Forrest  Mrs.  Isabelle  Stewart           "^"^  ^^^"^  Levench 

Mrs.    Margaret    Harris  admitted  by  certificate 

Edward   Pinner  July    11,    1S61.             Parker  Handy 

David   McCormick  admitted  by  certificate  Cornelia  S.  Handy 

James  Rutherford  Chas.  P.  Noyes                                  (Mrs.  P.) 


240 


Centennial  Celefication  of  tlje 


Susan  Marie  Bliss 

(Mrs.  Robt.) 
Mrs.  Maria  C.  Sloan 
John  T.  Gilchrist,  Jr. 
Anna  C.  Gilchrist 

(Mrs.  Jno.  T.) 
Mrs.  Catharine  P.  Rice 
Lizzie  G.  Rice 
Mrs.  Jane  Swift 
Loring  Andrews 
Blandina  B.  Andrews 

(Mrs.  L.) 
Mary  A.  Hayward 

May  g,  1862. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Mrs.  Eliza  I.  Swift 


Oct.  8,   1862. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

Mrs.  Catherine  B.  L,aurie 
Mrs.  Margaret 

Henderson 
Mrs.  Margaret  Hewitt 
Ellen  Leonard 

Nov.  6,  1862. 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATB 

Peter  Rowe 
Margaret  Stevenson 

Rowe  (Mrs.  P.) 
Henry  E.  Hawley 
Elizabeth  J.  Lockwood- 

Hawley 
Thomas  Sinclair 


Mrs.  Mary  C.  AuchinclossMrs.  Sophia  S.  Buck 
Charles  B.  Alexander  James  Cowper  Lord 
Archibald  McMartin 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Homer  Morgan 
Esther  S.  Leveritt 
Mrs.  J.  E.  F.  Ban 
Carrie  E.  Stansberry 
John  T.  Lawrence 
Ervilla   Lawrence 
(Mrs.  J.  T.) 
Thomas  W.  Hughes 
July    10,    1862. 
ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 
Mrs.  Christiana 

McNaughton 
Mrs.  Janet  Stewart 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  Thomson 
Constant  A.  Andrews 
Mary  Jane  Sloane 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  Disbrow 
ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Gilbert  Thompson 
Isaac  S.  Barrett 
Jeanie  H.  Barrett 
(Mrs.  I.  S.) 
Mrs.  Harriet  N.  Burgy 
Sept.   II,   1862. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 
Olivia  iloadley 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

John  H.  McKie 
Louisa  R.  McKie 

(Mrs.  Jno.) 
George  H.  Petrie 
Emma  F.  Petrie 
Mrs.  Mary  J.  Houghton 
Sarah  Ann  Moore 


Thomas  Sinclair 

Jan.  8,   1863. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Jas.  Henry  Work 
Thomas  Forrest 
Mrs.    Hester   Strang 
Josephine  Young 
Mrs.  Virginia  M.  Hook 
Harriet  Dewitt  Mitchill 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIEICATB 

Ezra  White 
Nancy  Ann  White 
(Mrs.  Ezra) 
William  W.  Wakeman 
Geo.  Trull 

Peh.  4,  1863. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Mrs.  Mary  Jane  Purvis 
Mrs.  Mary  Ann  Kellock 
Robert  Robinson 
Jane  Robinson 

(Mrs.  Robert) 
Alexander  Campbell 
Alexander  Whitehill 

March  5,   1863. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Janet  F.  Baird 
G.  Livingston  Morse 
Mrs.  Ella  Fraser 
George  A.  St.  John 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIPICAT8 

Theodore  H.  Conger 
James  Paton 


May  7,   1863. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

Charles  Davis 
Zachariah  L.  Edwards 
Ella  H.  Butler 
Elizabeth  Ellen 

Auchincloss 
Eliza  Maitland 
Alexander  Maitland 
Henrietta  Hawes 
John  B.  Hawes 
Caroline  L.  R.  Rice 
Louise  Mitchill 
ADMITTED  BY  CERTIPICATg 
Elizabeth  Chesney 

,  June    10,    1S63. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

Elizabeth  H.  McCart 
Janet  L.  Killock 
Elizabeth  Killock 
Mary  Miles  (Mrs.  J.) 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIPICATg 
Mrs.  Isabella  Gordon 
Isabella  B.  Gordon 
Mrs.  Mary  Baker 
Mrs.  Maria  Wilson 

July  9,   1863. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Mary  Norris 

Oct.  8,   1863. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Mary  Ann  W>ay 
Cornelia  S.  Wray 
Margaret  Norris 
James  Alexander  Baird 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Frederick  Hosford 
Mrs.  Jane  Taylor 
Wm.  E.  Morris 
Mary  ilorris 
Thos.  B.  Morris 

Oct.    14,    1863. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Mrs.  Janet  Moore 

Dec.    10,    1863. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

Edgar  S,  Auchincloss 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Elizabeth  Sterling 
James  B.  Thomson 
Mary  C.  Thomson 
(Mrs.  J.  B.) 


Jfiftf)  aicsenue  Pre^ljptetian  Cljurcl) 


241 


Mary  G.  Thomson 
Archibald  A.  Stevenson 
Mrs.  Ann  Brown 
Mary  Jane  Thompson 


June  IS,    1864.  Feb.  9,  1865. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION    ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSIOW 


Jessie  Ann  Ferguson 
Mary  Stirling 
Catharine  Roome 


Feb.    II,    1864 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTXFICATB  ^DMITTED  BY  CERTHfJCATB 
William  C.  Noyes 


Mrs.  Jane  R.  Noyes 
Fannie  I,.  Noyes 
James  W.  Noyes 
Brodnax  Atkinson 
Vernon  C.  Jarboe 

Feb.    17,    1864. 


Richard  Hall  Brown 
Mary  Cameron  Brown 

(Mrs.  R.  H.) 
Mary  Hamilton 
Margaret  Longstreet 

(Mrs.  S.) 

Oct.  6,  1864. 


Ann  Buckhaw 

(Mrs.  Geo.  B.) 
Mrs.  Rebecca  Susan 

Burkholder 
Mary  Caroline  Barnes 

(Mrs.  Hy  W.) 
John  H.  Mortimer 
Ewen  Mclntyre 
Amelia  Mclntyre 

(Mrs.  Ewen.) 
Ida  Bristol 
John  James  Irvin 


ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION    ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION  Mrs.    Lavinia    C. 

Embery 
Obed  Daw 


W3.n 


Charlotte  How  Markoe 
Girard  Graham 
Caroline  Louisa  Gross 
Edward  F.  Walker 
Mary  Augusta  Smith 

ADMITTED  BV  CERTIFICATB 

Charles  Rogers  Scribner 
James  C.  Nightingalie 

Oct.    13,    1864. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Mrs.  Sojihia  Holzberger 
Reuben  John  Atherton 
David  Morris  Gassner 
Maria  Amanda  Gassner 
Margaret  Cassadey 
James  Cassadey 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
James  Boothwick 
ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Jesse  Boothwick 
Mrs.  Margaret  Mawhinny  (Mrs.  Jas.) 


Mrs.  Ellen  Morrow 
John  Sterling 
Ellen  Sterling 

(Mrs.  Jno.) 
Mrs.  Catharine  Minor 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  Louisa 

Jackson 
Eliza  Jane  McKinty 
Mitilda  J.  Pearson 
Susan  Connor 
Margaret  A.  Reynolds 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  Craig 
Mary  L.  Steward 
Mary  Wildbort 
Anna  Eliza  McClure 
Mary  A.  McNatty 
James  Hayes 
James  Miles 
James  Fleming 


James   Rutherford 
Letitia  A.  Rutherford 

Dec.  8,  1864. 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Harvey    Fisk 
Louisa   Fisk   (Mrs.  H.) 


Sarah  Clelland 

April  7,  1864. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Sarah  Lord  Day 
Charles  Ellis  Morris 
Charles  Sargent 
ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Mrs.  Francis  B.  Mortimer 
Bernard  Paine  John  R.    Smith 

Roswell  Graves 
Eliza  Annette  Graves 

(Mrs.  R.) 
Mary  Hobart  Graves 
Eliza  Schuyler  Graves 
Wilison  B.    Shaw 
ADMITTED  BY  CERTiFiCATB  Margaret  E.  Shaw 
Wilhelm  Jung  (Mrs.  W.  B.) 

T.  Benton  Taylor  Robert  A.  C.  Shaw 

Ellen  M.  Taylor  John  Sinclair 


June  I),   1864. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Harriet   F.  Kelly 
Catharine  M.  Ashton 
Thomas  C.  Sloane 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

John  A.  Stewart 
Sarah  Y.  Stewart 

(Mrs.  Jno.  A.) 
Wm.  A.  W.  Stewart 
Joseph  Gamble 
Edward  K.  Norris 
Eliza  Mills 

(Mrs.  Andrew  M.) 
Mrs.  Sarah  L.  Bright 
Martha  Moorehead 

Feb.    13,    1865. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 
Mrs.  Eliza  McCurdy 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  Snyder 
Elizabeth  Connor 
Ellen  Smith 
Mrs.  Matilda  Wood 

April  6,   1865. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  Work 
Fannie  C.  Bunker 
Helen  B.  Ashton 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  Whitfield 
Mrs.  Almira  R.  Sears 
Julia  Wray 
Mrs.  Helen  Aurelia 
Viele 

June  8,  1865. 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Archibald  Barklie 
Oct.  5,  1865. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

George  H.  Sloane 
Elizabeth  Cochran 


242  Centennial  Celedtation  of  tfje 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Oct.    12,    1866.  Sarah  B.  Phillips 

John  C.  Maxwell  admitted  by  certificate  Edith  Phillips 

Frederick  Driggs  Mrs.  Caroline  M.  Wilde      Augusta  Van  Winkle 

Elizabeth  L,.  Gregory  Mrs.  Cordelia  R.  Badean    Lucinda  VanWinkle 
Isaac  A.  Crane  Lucinda  Bailey 

Sarah  J.  Crane  ^^"^  ^-  ^^°°-  Matilda  Bailey 

,,,         TAX  admitted   on    profession  e-ii        tj    'r      11 

(Mrs.  I.  A.)  T..       „,.     ,    ,,   ,,  Ellen  H.  Trull 

T   TVT   T-      ,1  Mrs.  Elizabeth  M.  xj  a    c    •*» 

I.  N.  Ewell  ^        ^,  Henry  A.  Swift 


Crowther 


Mary  A.  Swift 


_  Frederick  L.  Auchincloss  ...     ^   „    ■<-. 

Dec.  6.  1865.  T  I,     IT      •**  ^^^y  J-  Swift 

'        •'  John  Hewitt  ,  „   r,         ,  j 

ADMITTED  ON   PROFESSION  -,  „^^,„„„  j  n»T?^,oo»  James  E.  Reynolds 

A  T^-^  L   TT   J  Eockwood  DeForest  „        ,  „  , 

Anna  Fitch   Hyde  ,,,11  •        t      1  •  Russel  Kennedy 

/T,r       TT     T.  ^  William  Larkin  ,,.       _>,       .       „     ... 

(Mrs.  Hy  B.)  \u-\y        A    H     t  ™'  ■^^^™'"S  Smith 

Charles  Francis  Park  '  Helen  McGraw  Smith 

W.   W.   Wakeman   (Jr.)      admitted  by  certificate 

Mrs.  Nancy  P.  Wheelock  Peb.  5.  1867. 

admitted  by  certificate  ^^^  j.,j^^  Redrow  admitted  on  profession 

Henry  Rawls  ^^^'.^  Bingham  ?"""« Rogers 

Julia  R.  Rawls  Emily  Stewart 

(Mrs.  Hy)  p^j,    j^  j^(^y_  Mary  E.  Hall 

J.  Dickinson  Condict  admitted  on  profession  Sherman  J.  Bacon 

Emma  A.  Terbell  Mary  C.  Bacon 

Feb.  8,   1866.  Adelaide  Hoadley  Johnston  McCullough 

ADMITTED  ON  profession  Blanche  Andrews  Kate  Norris 

Adrian  S.  Clark  William  J.  Pate  John  Holmes 

ADMITTED  by  certificate  Richard  M.  Blatchford  Fanny  Kimball 
Sarah  A.  Watson  _ 

.-   ,  T.  T   1  ADMITTED  BY  certificate  ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

?r ^  K    Jf  T'°r  Geo.  LeCrosier  David  Irwin 

Elizabeth  1.  Jackson  ,,        t   t^i-  n  t         t      • 

H   R  \  Mary  I.  Walker  Jane  Irwin 

!^    y  ■      ■  Catharine  Jackson  Eliza  Wakeman 

James  Cochran  j^^^pj^  Patterson 

At>ril    -i     1S66  ^'"'''   "'   '^^^-  S^""^^  W-  McKnight 

ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  *«*"7'^,°^  ^^  PROFESSION  garah  N.  Davis 

Susie  Brown  ^"^^  t?         t.  Frances  J.  Hazelhurst 

Euphemia  Sloan  ?  r  \?   p"T       ""  ^"'^^  ^^-  ^^'^^'" 

Emma  P.  Young  {"^'^  ^1  ^"^'^5  Elizabeth  Ogburn 

Grace  Davison  Lord  ?"""  J;  ^°'^  ,  Helen  B.  VanZandt 

Susan  DeForest  Lord  5,^    "^ ■J'?^'^'^^'t  J-  B-  McLeod 

Caroline  H.  Park  ihomas  b.  loung,  jr.  admitted  by  CERTIFICATE 

Mrs.  Ellen  Hopkins  J^f""  ^^  17'^'  Louisa  Ferris 

Smith  William  H.  Sturges  james  Duff 

Thomas  P.  Gilman  Dec.  5,  JS67.  Charles  Dunlop 

ADMITTED  by  certificate    ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION  ^^""''^J^:  JJ'Tf " 

Mrs.  Kate  M.  Motley  Joseph    Morehead.    M.D.  f  ^-J"^,^"" 

Charlotte  Chambers  Hall  i-  M.  Brisboll 

June    7,    1866.  Janetta  W.  Alexander  NinaFravey 

ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  Archibald  Alexander  Came  T.  oreen 

William  Henry  Clark  Thomas  Emberson  Ivanna  W.  P.  Peck 

Isabella  Cochran  J.  O.  Taylor  ^ary  H.  Agnew 

Helen  Cochran  Julia  B.  DeForest  April  7    1867. 

Anna  T.  Mortimer  admitted  by  certificate  admitted  on  profession 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Mary  Jane  Morehead  Jane  Peel 
James  Hyde  Young              Frederick  W.  Whittemorejohn  L.  Gross 

W.  E.  Childs  Owen  W.  Whittemore  Margaret  Demarest 

Mrs.  Eliza  Childs  Howard  C.  Phillips  Jane  A.  Demarest 


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Mary  T.  Crane 
Henry  Sloane 
Wm.  D.  Sloane 
Susan  VanWagenen 
Christiana  VanWagenen 

April  7,  1S68. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Wm.  K.  Major 
Mary  L.  Major 
George  S.  Dana 
Sarah  Hawkins 
Edward  Arnold 
Isabella  S.  Marbury 
Ella  Bristol! 

June  10,   1868. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

Albert  B.  Boardman 
Margaret  B.  Monahan 
Adeline  M.  Irwin 
Susan  Taylor 
Mary  C.  Scott 
Charlotte  A.  Scott 
D.  Edwin  Hawley 
Annie  Gass 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Mary  Matson 
Emily  C.  Macy 
Charles  K.  Ludlum,  M.D. 
Jennie  White  Eudlum 
John  Phyfe 
James  Smith 
Alex.  Ferguson 
Albert  Phillips 
William  Campbell 
Jane  E.  Campbell 
Emma  Campbell 
Robert  Bonner 
Jane  Bonner 

Oct.  7,   1868. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFBSSION 

Elizabeth  Abbott 
Charlotte  C.  Leland 
Louisa  Taylor 
James  Taylor 
Margaret  Flight 
Charles  W.  White 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Malcolm  McMartin 
Isabella  McPherson 
Mary  R.  Struthers 
Stephen  R.  Struthers 
Agnes  Struthers 


Anne  Struthers 
Alex.  J.  Howell 
A.  Howell 
Alex.  Murray 
Catharine  Murray 
Marion  Murray 
Robert  A.  Murray 
George  Murray 
James  Bingham 
Samuel  J.  Curtis,  Jr. 
James  H.  Young 
Sophia  D.  Young 
Adolphus  Smedborg 
Mary  L.  Smedborg 
Catharine  W.  Juny 
Gertrude  Juny 
Jenny  Moffitt 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Hampden  Osborne 
Margaret  Skinner 
Donald  Campbell 
M.  E.  Dandridge 
Aam  Bride 
Agnes  Henry 
George  D.  Phelps 
Harriet  A.  Phelps 
David  Perry 

Dec.   10.    1868. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Fitzgerald  O'Connor 
Jane  Matchett 
Elizabeth  H.  Carlton 
John  L.  Gross 
Julia  Bartlett 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Martha  Perry 
Jacob  D.  Vermilye 
Mary  C.  Vermilye 

Feb.    II.    1869. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Sarah  Jane  Bradford 
Persis  M.  Olney 
Eveline  VanWinkle 
S.  J.  Armstrong 
Wm.  Alex.  Ferguson 
Margaret  Lord 
Mary  S.  Sheffield 
Maria  L.  Belshaw 
Catharine  Nelson 
Matilda  A.  Ferguson 
Mary  N.  Nancy 
Robert  L.  Maitland,  Jr. 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATB 

A.  H.  McKenzie 

E.  H.  Sherrer 
Catherine  McCloskry 
Mary  Read 
Charles  F.  Stoll 
Matilda  Perry 
Emeline  C.  Sherwood 

F.  S.    Bradford,   M.D. 
James  L.  Bishop 

R.   E.   Morrell 
Frances  L-  Orcutt 
Hampden  Waldron 
Charles  D.  Miller 
John  H.  Lockwood 

April  8,  1869. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 
Henry  Demarest 
Dudley  M.  Ferguson 
Elliot  McCormick 
Alex.  Guthrie  McCosh 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATS 
Hanna  Whitton 
Mary  Munro 
Joseph  A.  Welch 
Mary  A.  Welch 
Caroline  V.  Ferguson 
Donald  McGregor 
John   J.   Crane,  M.D. 
Adeline  M.  Post 
Anna  C.  Jones 
John  L.  Stryker 
Margaret  Mundell 
Mary  Ann  Houston 
E.  DeCockerille 
Eliza  Atkinson 
Henry  H.  Wilson 
Annie  N.  Armstrong 
George  Mowen 
David  Patterson 
Annie  E.  Wilson 
Miss  Crowe 

June   10,    1869. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION  • 

Jane  Augusta  Hasbrouck 
Sarah  B.  Leverett 
Chas.  W.  McClelland 
Mary  Henrietta  Avery 
Robert  Hoe 
Thyrza  Hoe 
Susan  T.  Irvin 
Esther  Smith 
Amelia  M.  Rogers 


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Oct.  7.   1869.  Mary  Prince 

ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  George  R.  Aitken 
Charles  S.  Orr  Mary  Jane  Adams 

Sarah  T.  Sands  Wm.  H.  Braman 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  J°^"  ^-  Grower 
Cornelius  R.  Agnew  Margaret  Dow 

Mary  Nash  Agnew  William  Alexander 

Emily  Hall  J^^"  Pa'-*"" 

Mary  A.  Herrington  Amelia  Allen 


Dec.  9,  1869. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Linda  Marquand 
Margaret  DeCockerille 
John  Van  Santvoord 
Sarah  E.  Wilson 
Jacob  VanWagenen 
James  McKennal 
Henry  King 
Laura  Hoe 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Bartholomew  Brown 
Ann  R.  Brown 
Lidia  W.  Brown 
Sarah  W.  Brown 
Sarah  Hoyt  Lee 
Elizabeth  Patterson 
Sarah  Pattison 
Charles  B.  Soutter 
Maria  E.  Upton 
Charles  W.  Carpenter 
Horace  Durne 
Lidia  G.  Jarvis 
Milicent  Jarvis 
Horace  W.  Robbins,  Jr. 
Mary  A.  Robbins 
Sarah  Turner 
Stephen   Dodge,   M.D. 

Feh.    10,    1870. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Sarah  J.  Rossbrough 
George  E.  Hodge 
Thomas  Balmer 
Anna  S.  Maxwell 
Sepbimus  E.  Swift 
Annie  M.  Sloan 
Adelaide  Branan 
Sarah  McCartney 
Wm.  George  Marshall 
George  St.  John  ShefBeld 
William  Kelley 
Rosa  Murray 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Maria  S.  Huberty 


April   8,    1870. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Thos.  Hall  Faile 
Caroline  Murray 
Sarah  Holmes 
Bleecker  N.  Mitchell 
Marcus  Walker 
Daniel  P.  Hathaway 
Frank  M.  Bonta 
Wm.  O.  Brewster 
Wm.  B|.  Darrah 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Mary  Douglass 
Harriet  G.  Walker 
Caroline  G.  Tappan 
George  D.  Phelps,  Jr. 
John  Leeper 
Charles  E.  Cochran 
Eveline  Cannon 

May   14,    1870. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Henry  Hopkins 
Mary  Hopkins 
Jeannette  Torrey 
Thomas  Swanton 
Catherine  Jordan 
James  Jordan 
Jane  McCarton 
Mariah  Phillips 
Margaret  Campbell 
Ann  Jane  Anderson 
Margaret  Doherty 
Rebecca  White 
Crawford  Lynn 
Mary  Ann  Lynn 
James  McCuUough 
Emily  Ebbets 
Sarah  Ebbets 
Jane  Gardiner 
Elenor  Rowe 
Elizabeth  Martin 
Emily  Phillips 
Rachel  Anderson 


June   <),    1870. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

Francis  B.  Thurber 
Robert  McAlester 
Sarah  Hawley 
Robert  W.  Hall 
Annie  Blagden 
Duncan   M.   G.  Crerar 
Emma  Barnes 
Wm.  Lewis  Wakefield 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Laura  W.  Curtis 
Jeanette  Thurber 
Mary  L.  Halsted 
Frances  M.  Wells 
Sarah  E.  Welch 
Samuel  P.  Blagden 
Mrs.  Carrier 
Miss  Carrier 

Oct.  6,  1870. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

Maria  Halsted 
James  Moorhead 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Mason  Thompson 
Mary  Ann  Thompson 
Jessie    Campbell   Crerar 
Ann  Vint 

Albert  W.  VanWinkle 
VanAUen  Pugsley 

Dec.  8,  1870. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Mary  Campbell 
Margaret  Campbell 
D.  McMartin  Niven 
Joseph  M.  Ginn 
John  Murray 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICAT8 

Morris  K.  Jesup 
Maria  DeWitt  Jesup 
Abby  S.  Jesup 
Franklin  C.  Davis 
John  Redpath 
Margaret  Mercer 
Samuel  Beach  Jones,  Jr. 
Isabella  G.   Paton 
Samuel  Kingham 

Feb.  %  1871. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Karl  Rudolphe  Heike 
Lucas  L.  VanAllen 
Isabella  E.  McCormick 


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Isabella  F.  McCortnick 
Isabella  McNaughton 
Jenny  W.  Olcott 
Mary   P.    Warner 
Charles  M.  Jesup 
Allen   Marguand 
Catherine  S. 
Margaret  Fraser 
Elmer  Perilson 
Wm.   H.   Dyckman 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Alice  Williams 
Thos.  Hall  Rutherford 
Harrison  Downes 
Frances  C.  Melton 
Jennie  Melton 
Thomas  Borland 
Robert  Cushman 
Edgar  A.  Hamilton 
Eliza  Clark 
Elizabeth  Robertson 
Robert  H.  Robertson 
Fanny  Clark 

April   4,    1871. 

ADMITTED  ON    PROFESSION 
Jane  Brennan 
Elizabeth  Hopkins 
Margaret  McCuUough 
Jeannie  Semon 
Mary  Jordan 
Florence  Wingrove 
Harriet  King 
Sarah  Hobley 
M.  Neill 
James  Watson 
William  Roe 
James  W  ingrove 
Hester  Wingrove 
Anna  M.  Stugard 
Maria  Enright 
Margaret  Doyle 

Isabella  Watson 
Margaret  Nichol 
Isabella  DeVoe 
Catherine  DuBoyce 
Rebecca  Rookliff 
Wm.  F.  Moller 
Caroline  P.  Whitlock 
Wm.  A.  F.  Henningsen 
Jeannie  T.  Kenyon 
Richard  H.  Hall 
Caroline  P.  T.  Crawford 
Alice  D.  Pegran 

Fredk.  Augustus  Dwight 


Margaret  Dowey 
William  A.  Paton 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Magdelana  Schrel 
Jeannie  McKay 
Mary  Ann  P.  Swift 
Kate  M.  Bennott 
Margaret  Watson 
Joseph  A.  Barron 
Lewis  Randolph  Smith 
Caroline  Mary  S.  Smith 
Fanny  F.  Avery 
Mary  A.  Averry 
Mary  J.  McKennell 
Mary  Breeton 
Benj.  R.  Pegram 
Effia  J.  Scott 
Geo.  C.  Ewen 
Anne  A.  McEwen 
Jane  A.  Miller 

June   8,    1 87 1. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 
Emily  Auchincloss 

Maxwell 
Elizabeth  Mason 

Harriet  M.  Kelley 
Bolton  Hall 
Annie  Burbank 
Helen  Andrews  Marvin 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Sarah  B.  Clark 
Nannette  B.  Clark 
Bessie  B.  Clark 
Nathan  G.  Samson 
Ellen  Fay  Samson 
John  N.  Bradley 
Mary  W.  Bradley 
Mary  W.  Bradley 
Helen  W.  Bradley 
Elizabeth  N.  Bradley 
B.  Blakeman 
Anna  M.  T.  Blakeman 
Marianna  Blakeman 
George  W.  Perkins 
Agnes  NicoU 

Oct.  5,   1871. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Robert  W.  Hamilton 
Eliza  Lewis  Smith 
Augusta  A.  Smith 
Allen  D.  Grant 
Mary  D.  Breckenridge 
Fanny  B.  Marshall 


Jane  G.  Griffin 
Adelaide  L.  Whitlock 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Henry  L.  Bernstein 
Calvin  Keyser 
E.  C.  Hood 
Franke  S.  Williams 
Alexander  White 
Margaret  Martin 
William  A.  Harris 
Catherine  M.  Butler 
Florence 

Thomas  H.  Butler 
William  Millar 
John  T.  Wilson 
Anne  Wilson 
Charlotte  E.  Wilson 
Thomas  Kussell 
Mrs.  Russell 

Nov.  p,  187 1. 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Luther  Barton 

Dec.  5,  1871. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Marion  Gray  Tod 
Gertrude  E.  Moran 
Charles  M.  McBride 
Alwin  H.  Dodd 
Catherine  Pape 
Blanche  M.  Crichton 
Mary  Ann  McKennal 
Ella   Beardslee 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Saada  Gregory 
George  Borgfelt 
Harriet  Carson 
Archibald  Thompson 
Sarah  B.  Vernon 
William  Smith 
John  D.  Borbner 
Jane  Rich 
George  Gall 
Mrs.  Gall 
E.  Otto  Rudert 

Peb.   8,   1872. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

William   A.    Fraser 
Minnie  W.  Whitlock 
Chas.  P.  Leverich 
Ellen  McNally 
John  J.  McCook 
Emily  M.  Blois 
William  Irwin 


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Delia  Rich 
Thomas  Scott 
Arthur  McDaniel 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATB 

Amelia  M.  Whitlock 
Henry  S.  Whittemore 
Mary  G.  Borden 
Julia  A.    Whittemore 
Lucy  G.  Whittemore 
Newton  Amerman 
Mary  F.  Amerman 
Sarah  Taylor 
George  Taylor 
Agnes  McNaught 
William  Shear 
Margaretta  M.  Shear 
Duncan  G.  Turner 
Mrs.  Turner 
Robert  S.  Sinclair 
John  Sinclair 
Fanny  C.  Sinclair 
Matilda  M.  Lenn 
Alexander  White,  Jr. 
Anastasia  V.  Boise 
IjUcinda  Richardson 

April  II,   1872. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Frederick  Nash  Ovven 
Mary  Pittfield  Griffin 
Gertrude  Horton 
Agnes  Hewitt 
Marion  Isabella  Hewitt 
Henry  St.  Clair  Hewitt 
Alfred  D.  Hewitt 
Rosina  Borland 
Emeline  Harriman 
Julia  Louise  Smith 
Alice  Cochran 
Frederick  A.  Marquand 
Israel  Newton  Terry 


Arthur  F.  Hawes 
James  Henry  Leverich 
Charlotte  Isabel  Peck 
Rosa  Scott 

Fanny  Haselhurst  Ryer 
Martha  Laird 
James  Mc Vicar 


Lucie  Parmly 
Kenneth  Junor 
D.  L.  Mecluire 
Isabella  Barr 
Phebe  Ann  Baker 
Julia  Baker 
Jane  Ruthven 


ADMITTED  BY 

IJliza  McCormac 
Elizabeth  M.  McClellan 
Mary  R.  Hotchkin 
Kate  Baker 
H.  F.  Jantson 
Eugenie  Menut 
Wm.  M.  Reynolds,  M.D. 
David  J.  Garth 
Susan  C.  Garth 
Anna  Halsted  Terbell 
Alex.  M.  Proudfit 
Maria  M.  Proudfit 

Oct.    10,    1872. 


CERTIFICATB  ^^"^  ^-  R"thven 


Edward  A.  Jones 
Maria  E.  Jones 
R.  M.  Reynolds 
Sarah  L.  Reynolds 
Joseph  B.  Morrison 

Feb.  4,  1873. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSIOK 

Clement  R.  Thomson 
Richard  Irvin,  Jr. 
William  Barr 
Andrew  W.  Knox 
Susie    P.    Lilienthal 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATB 


ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  ^arah  A.  Whitney 


Wm.  Strong  Warner 
Laura  Hamillcn  Paton 
Albert  Van  Winkle 
Charles  Albert  Wiley 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Henrietta  L.  Warner 
Richard  J.  Thompson 
Helen  A.  Soffe 
Wm.  Libbey,  Jr. 
Jonas  M.  Libbey 
C.  E.  Jones 
Agnes  Sinclair 
Hans  Meier 
Mary  Howland 
Arthur  Ritchie 
John  J.  Wilson 
Ann  Taylor  Wilson 
J.  Varnum  Mott,  M.  D. 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATB  ^hos.  McBride 

Isabel  Dunkin 

Mary  A.  Broome 

Hugh  McGuire 

Anna  H.  Rogers 

Wm.  J.  Mclntyre 

Hattie  A.  Scribner 

William  Wilson 

E.  F.  Lindeman 

Alexander  Lang 


Dec.  5,   1872. 


John  Herron 
Mrs.   Herron 
Henry  L.  Smith 
Jane  N.  Smith 
Martha  C.  McNulty 
Edna  Jennie  Barger 
Caroline  B.  Wilson 
George  D.  Parmly 
Emily  P.  A.  Woolsey 
John  Cleve  Henderson,  Jr. 
Hiram  W.  Warner 
Charlotte  M.  Warner 
Harriet  B.  Bokee 
Thomas  Kerr 

April   10,    1873. 
ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSIOW 
Fannie  A.  Higgins 
James  A.  Maxwell 
Alfred  W.  Fisher 
Harriet  McMartin 
Abby  W.  Merrill 


ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION    ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATB 


Harold  Morgan  Smith 
Samuel  Alexander 
Jeremiah  Skidmore 
Christina  Murray 
Edith  Fairfax  Smith 
Edward  H.  Miller 


Sophronia  Breckrenridge 
Margaret  Hazel 
David  Wilkins 
Mary  F.  Dexter 
J.  E.  Colton 
Mrs.  Colton 


June  6,  1872.  ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  James  A.  Gerhard 

Eliza  Clark 
Harriet  R.  Smedberg 
Samuel  L.  Mitchill 


ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  Catherine  Atkinson 
Robert  McCormac  Ada  Jaffray 

Joseph  Rogers  Florence  Jaflfray 


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Henry  D.  Prince 
George  Hamilton 
Fannie  S.  Hamilton 
Robert  H.  Wilkinson 

June   5.    ^^73- 


Jeminia  McCuUough 
Jane  McElroy 
Jennie  Martin 
Mary  Groengor 
Charlotte  Welsh 
Pauline  A.  Disnoe 


ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION  jj^j^j^  j^^g  BrOWn 

Josie  M.  Whitlock 
Sylvene  Miller 
Robert  N.  Bruce 


John  Frasor 


James  Gumming  Murray 
Kate  L.  Cook 
Ida  Mc  In  tyre 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTlPICATg 

James  T.  Ford 
William  Leeper 
Robert  Beggs 
Mary  Ann  Beggs 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Walter  S.  Pierce 


Isaac  Glassey 
Mary  Humphrey 
John  A.  Stewart,  Jr. 
Emily  Mclntyre 
Jeannette  Prosser 
James  Stewart 
Frederick  A.  Libbey 
Thos.  C.  Hall 
ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICAT8  John  Henry  Benedict 


Mary  Frasor 
Elizabeth  Moir 
Elizabeth  H.  Earle 

Feb.  5,  1874- 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Cassia  J.  Hamilton 
Alice  M.  Paton 
Maggie  Adair  Bulkley 


Alfred  Nichols 
Eliza  Henry 
Ann  Cummings 
Mary  E.  Cummings 
Eleanor  K.  Major 


H.  Doolittle 
L.  C.  Doolittle 
Joseph  Doolittle 
Helen  MacKensie 
F.  W.  Litten 
Edwin  B.  Miller 
Rebecca  C.  Miller 
Lizzie  Henderson 


June   II,    1874. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROPESSIOK 

Mary  Sheitlin 
Elvina  Sheitlin 
Anna  Harriman  Florence  A.  Cordis 

Sarah  Jane  Kirk  Nellie  P.ussel  Cordis 

Harriet  Gross  Catherine  Murray 

Herman  E.  K.  M.  Schaus-pho^ias  Sloane 
ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Walter  H.  Sloane 
Alex.  McGregir  Crerar        Walbridge  Bulkley 


Elizabeth  Irwin 
Alexander  G.  VanCleve 
Albert  Remick 
Carrie  A.  Remick 


Oct.   10,    1873. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Isabella  Andrews  Feb.  zt,  1874. 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATS    ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 


John  G.  Mairs 
Samuel  Laughlin 
Elizabeth  A.  Laughlin 
Josephine  Ross 
Sarah  Hunt 
M.  Stevenson 

Dec.   II,   1873- 


Francina  Umber 
Arthur  Neill 
William  Stewart 
Ann  Sutton  Oliver 
Elizabeth  Ann  Kerridge 


Hepsy  H.  Wilcox 

ADMITTED  BY  CEKTIFICAT8 

Lanier  Dunn 
Eliza  Beggs 
Elizabeth  Beggs 
Charles  O.  H.  Smith 
Maria  L.   G.  Auchincloss 
Mary  Ann  Reckless 


ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  Mathew  Drysdale 
Isabella  Crothers 


Oct.  8,   1874- 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Mary  W.  Steele 
ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Mary  F.  McKensie 
Sarah  E.  Dennis  George  G.  Wheelock 


Emily  C.  Hall 
Katie  C.  Ryer 
E.  Josephine  Peck 
Annie  Mack 
Mary  A.  Wheelock 


Jeannette  Ruthven 
Parker  D.  Handy 
Annie  Everitt   Swift 
Augusta  H.  Taintor 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Mgrtha  W.  Prescott 

Alex.  C.  Stewart 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

April  g,  1874.  Margaret  Bussini 

ADMITTED  ON   PROFESSION  William  Bluett 
Mary  E.  Pierce 


Ann  McKenzie  Bruce 
Edward  Seymour 
Sarah  J.  Seymour 
Mugger  Kreeconian 

Jan.  8,  1874. 


Sallie  C.  Mar 
James  L.  Harriman 
Henry  Marquand 
Martha  Y.  Barnes 
Henry  D.  Bristol 
Eleanor  Agnew 


ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  Caroline  L.  Morgan 
Henrietta  Parsons  Daniel  Murray 


Dec.    10,    1874. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 
Carrie  A.  Boardman 
Thos.  W.  Gerard 
Margaret  Gerard 
Charles  J.  Smock 
John  E.  Parmley 
John  S.  Wilde 
Sarah  Richards 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATS 

Charles  M.  Taintor 


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Thomas  A.  Nelson 
Annie  E.  Dodge 
Susan  S.  Francklyn 
James  Swanzie 
Catherine  A.  Swanzie 
Frank  L.  Janeway 
Jennie  B.  Parmelee 
Sarah  J.  Struthers 
Charles  Phipps 
Kate  Lintz 

Feb.    10,    1S75. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

William  Johnston 
Jane  Eliza  McNealey 
Thomas  L.  Seymour 
Mary  S.  Gilmore 
James  H.  Belcher 
William  Sloane 
Alice  Hall 

Geo.  DeForest  L.  Day 
Mary  Jane  Miller 
William  Brinker 
Emma  B.  Todd 
Charles  F.  Abbot 
Alice  E.  Abbot 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
E.  D.  McDonald 
•Adelina  A.  Harper 
Daniel  C.  Mclntyre 
Sarah  Bunker 
Rachel  Blair 
Mary  H.  Bruce 
Florence  Bragg 
Q.  A.  Gilmore 
M.  J.  Westbury 
Warren  C.  Bevan 
Virginia  B.  Bevan 

April   8,    1875. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Ellen  McElwrath 
Elizabeth  W.  Whitlock 
B.  Morris  Whitlock 
Fielding  L-  Marshall 
Charles  F.  Parmlee 
Edith  Thomson 
Samuel  Smith 
Susan  Bull 
Harvey  E.  Fisk 
Sidney  A.  Smith 
Lucy  N.  Barnes 
James  Black 
Mary  N.  Black 
Catherine  Black 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Matilda  Burton 


Mary  Johnston 
Wainwright  Bradley 
Mary  A.  Pope 
James  Kingan 
John  C.  Angell 
James  Davison 
Matilda  Hunt 

June    10,    1875. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Silliman  Blagdon 
Mina  Rudolph 
Jennie  A.  Tarleton 
Helen  D.  Morris 
Thomas  Humphries 
Willis  Van  Winkle 
Mary  F.  Garth 
Anna  H.  Wilde 
Paulina   S.   Pearsall 
Alexander  Mills 
Mary  A.  Mills 
Cecelia  Cabrow 
Annie  Cleave 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

R.  T.  Wilson 
M.  C.  Wilson 
Charles  P.  Britton 
Caroline  Britton 
Henry  Campman 
Helen  D.  Campman 
John  A.  Livingstone 
Jane  G.  Livingstone 
Jane  P.  Livingstone 
Mary  Craig 
Elliot  F.  Shepard 
Margaret  S.  V.  Shepard 
Anna  H.  Bolton 
Peter  Amerman 
Mary  W.  F.  Amerman 
Sidney  M.  Stray 
E.  C.  Graham 
Louisa  B.  Graham 
Frederick  H.  Wolcott 
Alice  Wolcott 
Edward  F.  Brown 
Eleanor  R.  Brown 
Silas  B.   Brownell 
Sarah  S.  Brownell 
Emily  V.  Sloane 
Anna  E.  Mortimer 
Wm.  C.  Dornin 
Mary  J.  Dornin 
Marion  Strang 
Josephine  A.  VanVorst 


Dorothea  Pfandor 
Sarah  Lord 
George  Lord 

Oct.  7,  1875. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFSSSIOM 

M.  Honamieson  Ahakhan 
Emma  J.  Bonner 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICAT8 

Catherine  T.  Thompson 
Mary  T.  Wescott 
Annie  Montgomery 
Samuel  Lemon 
Margaret  Lemon 
Edward  W.  Coleman 
Catherine  Coleman 
Wm.  B.  Taylor 
Gertrude  B.  Taylor 
John  Inglis 
Wm.  Inglis 
John   R.   Inglis 
Agnes  Ingles 
Samuel  Montgomery 
Eliza  Montgomery 
Samuel  J.  INIontgomery 
Loranie  W.  Montgomery 
Margaret  Dunlop 
John  Jennings 
Margaret  J.  Jennings 
Margaret  J.  McKilvey 
Annie  E.  McKilvey 
Frank  W.  Giffin 
Hugh  Stokes 
William  Lintz 
Maria  Lintz 
John  H.  Inman 
Margaret  C.  Inman 
George  Sanderson 
Sarah  M.  Sanderson 
Margaret  Rollo 
Marion  A.  Rollo 
Maggie  L.  Rollo 
Nanette  B.  Beneded 
Ruth  Glass 
Eliza  J.  Glass 
E.  J.  O'Brien 
Thomas  Nelson 

Dec.  9,  1875- 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

James  F.    D.   Lanier,  Jr. 

George  Prescott 

Mary   Emily  Donaldson 

Alice  A.  Post 

Sally  R.  Post 


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Wm.  H.  Maxwell,  M.D. 
John  D.  Pultz 
Edith  E.  Jaffray 
Annie  H.  Bruce 
Josephine  Mendham 
Anna  K.  Eraser 
Charles  J.  Fisk 
Alice  G.  Amerman 
Julia  Sperry 
John  Walker 


Henrietta  White 
Cornelius  Winant 
Sarah  M.  Winant 
Wm.  H.  Beadleston 
Susan  A.  Beadleston 
Catherine  C.  Giles 
Margaret  Wallace 
Maria  Darlington 

Feb.    JO.    1876. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Emma  McNamara 


William  Pfander 
Charles  F.  Cutter 
Edgar  A.  Enos 
Helen  A.  Pultz 
Ann  Neil 
John  Alex.  Scott 
Lizzie  H.  McBride 
C.  E.  Perkins 
Sarah  E.  Crawford 
John  M.  Simpson 
E.  M.  Stephenson 
Melanie  B.  Durfee 
Rosaline  A.  Smith 
Margaret  J.  White 
Isabella  McCullagh 
Anna  McCaulay 
Martha  E.  Piepers 
Mary  Forsyth  Wickes 
Edward  A.  Wickes 
Sarah  W.  Prescott 
David  A.  Hedges,  M.D. 
E.  W.  Beardslee 
Anna  E.  Beach 
Caroline  H.  Johnson 
Catherine  A.  Taylor 
Elizabeth  A.  Irwin 
Lizzie  Powell 
John  W.  Bowling,  M.D. 
Frances  E.  Dowling 
John  M.  Harlow 
Sarah  M.  Harlow 
Frederick  Bruce 
Charlotte  A.  Bruce 
Mary  Annie  Bruce 
Daniel  M.  Walbridge 
Mary  E.  Walbridge 
Anna  Stuart 
Margaret  Stuart 
John  P.  Duncan 
Susan  W.  Duncan 
David  Duncan 
Ellen  Duncan 
William  White 
Margaret  White 


Mary  Ann  McCracken 

Eliza  Whitford 

Jacob  W.  Young 

John  W.  Auchincloss 

Margaret  Graham 

Frederick  S.  Bragg 

Marietta  Sanford 

Eliza  Duke 

C.  Stockton  Halsted 

Sarah  Ann  Halsted 

Meredith  Howland 

Henry  A.  Smedberg 

Edmond  M.  Smedberg 

Pliny  Fisk 

Alexander  G.  Fisk 

Francis  Thoman 

Elizabeth  W.  Coats 

Anna  M.  Coats 

Fanny  Gerard 

Bessie  Hyatt 

Ellen  Wheeler 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTiFiCATS  ^''^^  Q-  Harrison 


Helen  Raymond 
George  P.  Slade 
Cornelia  W.  Slade 
Mary  Anderson 
Sarah  P.  Cabus 
Bridget  Burke 
Catherine  Irvine 
Georgiana  Irvine 
Martin  S.  McNamara 

April   6,    1876. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFSSSION 
James  T.  Murray 
Mary  A.  B.  Murray 
Jennie  E.  Thayer 
Albert  W.  Greene 
Catherine  F.  Campbell 
Leeming  W.  Campbell 
Thomas  Harrington 
Henry  A.  Alexander 
Margaret  I.  Jennings 
Francis  J.  Patoa 
Agnes  M.  Coffin 
Margaret  Bruyn 
Amelia  DePan  Fowler 
Meta  Oliver  Fowler 
Aimee  C.  Toler 
E.  Judson  Hawley 
Leila  B.  Trowbridge 
Francis  H.  Markoe 
Alfred  N.  Beadleston 
Margaret  McConnoll 


S.  B.  Merrill 
Bertha  M.  Kohlsaat 
Jennie  R.  Stevenson 
Catherine  McKeown 
Agnes  McKeown 
Peter  McFadden 
Eliza  Jane  McFadden 
Phebe  T.  Magie 
Robert  Stenhouse 
Mary  Stenhouse 
C.  C.  Lancaster 
Adela  B.    Sloane 
Ellen  Davis 
Samuel  Kilpatrick 
Betty  J.  Kilpatrick 
Charles  T.  Raynolds 
Adelaide  A.  Raynolds 
Robert  T.  Meeks 
Sarah  E.  Meeks 
M.  Burton 
J.  McFarland 
Russell  Raymond 


John  S.  Cunningham 
John  Herron,  Jr. 
Robert  E.  Bonner 
S.  Walter  RoUo 
S.  W.  Beekman,  Jr. 
Mary  Thorpe 
Grace  Mortimer 
Joseph  T.  Thompson 
Mary  Monroe 
George  Fait 
Sarah  E.  Adams 
John  Forbes  Warner 
Laura  Agnew 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATS 

Adelia  H.  Brown 
Jane  M.  Coffin 
Mary  M.  Donaldson 
D.  G.  Watts 
R.  H.  Sloan,  M.D. 
Jennie  M.  Sloan 
Edward  S.  Jaffray 
Anna  F.  Jaffray 


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Fanny  H.  Roorback 
Wm.  King  Hicks 
John  A.  Wilson 
Laura  A.  Peck 
William  Wetmore 
Sophia  J.  Torrance 
Alexander  Dongan 
Priscilla  P.  Sloane 
W.  Whitewright  Stuart 
Matilda  D.  Leverich 
Martha  A.  Colton 
Joseph  E.  Lord 
Cornelia  A.  Beekman 
Charles  Meyer 
David  Magie,  M.D. 
Margaret  S.  Magie 
Ernst  Lencke 

June   8,    1876. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Katie  S.  Keane 
Sophia  Mencke 
Margaret  T.  Chapelle 
Harriet  Godefroy 
Mary  Miller 
Annie  Miller 
Ada  Knight 
Agnes  Becket 
Isabella  R.  McCoon 
James  Henry 
Eliza  Plenry 
Laura  Miller 
Helen  Miller 
Christiana  Boiling 
Helen  Gillespie 
Mary  A.  Morrison 
Walter  J.  Becket 
Edmond  Roe 
Henry  L.  Davis 
Joseph  Hoff 
Annie  A.  Tucker 
Helen  P.  Anderson 
Adelaide  Howland 
Mary  Carr  Hardie 
Robert  Chambers 
Joseph  Whittemore 
Edward  L-   Terbell 
Elijean  Terbell 
Mary  G.  McFarland 
Russell   R.    Brown 
William    A.    Johnston 
Charles   W.    Barnes 
Maggie  P.  French 
Sarah  H.    Bokee 
Emil   Bang 


John    B.    Anderson 
George  G.   Lincoln 
Clarissa  Giles 
Frank    H.    Piatt 
S.   Gertrude  Mortimer 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICAT8 

Edward   G.   Clarke 

Sarah    Clelland 

Mary   F.    H.   Shears 

Thos.   J.    C.    Guy 

E.    M.    French 

Mary  Brown 

David    Q.    Maclean 

James   C.    Knox 

Mary  L.  Knox 

Jane  W.   McKee 

Harriet    Van    Deventer 

Elizabeth   Van   Deventer  H.  A.   Hart,   M.D. 

Josephine   Van    D.    Smith^ate   Hart 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTlPICATS 
Mary  Jane  Ormsby 
James    Campbell 
Josephine  E.  Carpenter 
Arthur  A.   Barrows, 

M.D. 
Annie    Carroll 
George   E.    Dodge 
M.    Beadleston 
Wm.  B.  Cragin 
Louisa  M.  Howland 
Maria  Louisa  Brown 
Mary   Elizabeth   Ames 
George   W.   Thornton 
Lawrence    D.    Alexander 
Orline    St.    John 

Alexander 


Hattie  B.   Potter 
Charles  H.   Potter 
Matilda  M.  Potter 
Cora  A.  Bulkley 

Oct.  5,  1876. 


Mary   Belle  Nichols 
Abram  A.   Smith,  M.D. 
Sue  Smith 

Dec.  7,  1876. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 


ADMITTED  ON   PROFESSION  Comelia  L.   Martin(Mrs.) 


George    S.    McKibbin 
Jane    Louisa    Turner 
Mary    Bunney 
Robert  Parker  Bliss 
Sarah   Prescott 
Melvin    C.    Haskell 
Laura  E.  Prescott 


Cornelia  L.  Martin 
Margaret    Ann    Glass 

Feb.  8,  1877. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 
Elizabeth   Bodle 
Isabella    Bullman 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Anne   Harrison 


Isabella  Walker 
Jannette  M.  Crichton 
Isabella  Calvert 
Wm.    St.    George   Elliot 
Annie    R.    Elliot 
Elizabeth   C.  McKibbin 

Dec.  5,   1S76. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 
Elizabeth    Lindsay 
Matilda  Jane   Lemon 
George   C.   Magoun 
Adelaide  L.   Magoun 
Lucy    A.    Johnson 
Mary    Graham 
Cornelius    Van   W. 

Dem.arest 
Mary  Tylor  Moore 
Annie    C.    Moore 
JVIary  Douglass  Graham 
Lizzie    Laforge 


James  Phillips 
Jane   Phillips 
Thos.  A.   Mclntyre 
Emma  Louisa  Ames 
Frederick    C.    Beach 
John   R.    Wilde 
Stephen    Wray 
Oliver    Harriman,    Jr. 
Hampton  Johnston 
James   L.    Perry,    M.D. 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATtt 

Dinah  Armour 

Apr.  5,  1877. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Susan    Russel    Baker 
Lizzie  Henry 
Lizzie  R.  Munro 
ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

George  M.   Baker 


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Dan'l   E.   Van 

Valkenburg 
Alida  S.  Van 

Valkenburg 
Anna   Van   Valkenburg 
Edelbert  Jeanrenaud 
John  H.  Weber 
Catherine  E.    Smock 
Jennings  J.   McComb 
Mary  H,   McComb 
D.   Eveline  F.  Hascall 
Mary   N.  Perkins 
Malcolm    Graham 
Samuel   L.    Stiver 
Elizabeth  H.  Merchant 
James    Hasley 
Arthur   T.  Muzzy 
Wm.  J.   Gibson 
Wm.    H.    Dornin 
Phebe   G.    Dornin 
Sarah  F.  Gardner 
J.   O.   Averill 
Edwin   F.   Hatfield,  Jr. 
Henry  C.  Meyer 
Charlotte  E.    Meyer 
Frances  L,.   Baker 
Horace  Maxwell 
Cornelia  S.  M.   Moore 
Rensen  Schenck 
Minnie  T.  Schenck 
Anna  Henderson 
Amelia  Wade 

Apr.  8,  18/7. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

William  Howgill 
Wm.    Walcott   Knight 
John  C.    Rosch 
Martha  Rosch 
Madeline    Finck 
Sabina  Wtitzel 
Sophia  Brown 
David  White 
Charles  McGrath 
PaiTiela   Strattoh 
Alexander   Thompson 
Mary   E.   JMurray 
Lizzie   S.    Haines 
Anna   M.    Smith 
John  S.  Howell 
Helen   S.    Mitchell 
Augusta    Pierce 
Emma  Durant 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Francis  Forbes 
f\melia  H.  Armstrong 


Jennie  Heywood 
H.  R.  Palmer 
Mary  Jane  Hall 
Elizabeth  S.  Corne 
Amelia  McDonald 
Jacob  Campbell 
Margaret  F.   Campbell 
Wilson  S.  Scott 
Thomas  H.  Stout 
Sarah  C.  Stout 
Grace  M.  Whittemore 
Sarah  A.  Garth 
Margaret  L.  Mead 
R.  Douglass  Grant 

May  31,  1877. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Eliza  Bullman 

Andrew  Sime 

Rachel  Brown 

Jane  Birrell 

Joseph    Cabus 

Sarah   Cabus 

Henry   Winant 

J.    Leverett   Moore 

Asahel   Raymond 

John  Alex.  Blackwood 

John  Koox  Burton 

Anna  M.  Stanley 

Thos.   H.    Skinner,  M.D. 

Robert  J.    Sharpe 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Rose  Brown 
James  Alcohrn 
Margaret  Alcohrn 
Martha  Dillon 
Samuel   R.   Adams 
Theresa  Adams 
James  Brown 
E.  S.   Butler 
John   H.   Tallman 
Anna  V.  Tallman 
Gertrude   Skinner 
Anna  F.   Schenck 
Mary   M.   Schenck 
Wm.  Walton   Schenck 
jNIary   E.    Cook 
Josephine    Stanley 
Maria   Frame 
Katherine  Karr 
Thomas  V.   Powell 
Henry  Barbels 
Christina   Barbels 

Oct.  II,  1877. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Robert  W.   McCracken 


Martha  Sutten 
Icanna  A.  Hengstenberg 
Alexander  Trimble 
William  Sepp 
Emma  Sepp 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Eliza  A.  Livingslon 
Mary  Campbell 
C.  L.  Campbell 
Eva  A.  Schoonmaker 
Matthew  Frame 
Ann   Frame 
John  M.   Amweg,  Jr. 
Dora  Barbels 
Martha  Manwaring 
William   Leys 
Jennie  M.   Leys 
James  A.   Frame 
J.   B.   Galloway 
Emma  F.  Richmond 
Charlotte  A.   Marshall 

Dec.  5,  1877. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Elizabeth  M.  Thomson 
Louisa  Beebe 
William   C.   Clopton 
Corinne   Roosevelt 
John  D.  Locke 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Joel    D.   Hunter 
Mary  F.  Hunter 
Fanny   H.   Hunter 
David  M.   Hunter 
Waltor  L-    Hunter 
Susan  E.  Davis 
Abbie   Jennie   Wilds 
Lillian    Minnie   Wilds 
Josephine   D.    Taylor 
Herbert  Charles  Taylor 
Russell   H.    Hoadley 
Alice  H.   Hoadley 
James   B.    Gemmill 
Andrew    Wright 
Cornelia    B.    Strong 
Kate  R.  Wright 
Kate  H.   Meigs 

Feb.  7,  187S. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSIOM 

Agnes  J.   Murray 
Annie   Donaldson 
Henry  A.  Fagnani 
S.  Kitty  Owen 
Maud  Rowland 
Mabel  Marquand 


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Centennial  Celebration  of  tht 


Elizabeth  L.   Marguand 
Frances  L.  VanVechten 
Marie  Louise   Case 
Mary   Alice   McComb 
Louisa    Hengstenberg 
Robert  Walter,   Jr. 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Minnie   E.    Thompson 
Annie  H.  Thompson 
Isabella   HofT 
Caroline  G.  Hoff 
Edward  D.   Bettins 
Stenhouse   Bong 
Sarah  E.  Jewett 
Charlotte  A.  Armour 
Henry  Ivison 
Harriet   Ivison 
James  A.  Parsons 
Kate  J.   Parsons 
Maria  L.  Luqueer 
Amelia  Mott  Luqueer 
Simeon  Phillips 
Mrs.  Phillips 
Ellen  L.   Hopkins 
Albert  Phillips 


May  9,  J878. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 
Annie   M.   McCron 
Magdelin  Gray 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
John  McCron 

May  30,  1878. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Mary   Forbes 
Mary  A.   Forbes 
Lucretia  Buck 
Augustine  L.   Smith 
Annie   Thompson 
Edwin  Mclntyre,  Jr. 
Robert   Watson   Spear 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Archibald  A.   Bill 
Henry   C.   Stimson 
Julia  A.    Stimson 
Julia  J.    Stimson 
Mary  A.  Stimson 
Catherine  Stimson  Wes- 
ton 
Fanny  Mclntyre 
W.  E.   Emery 
Elizabeth    Emery 

Mary  Borland 
ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION  j^j^^^j^    g^^,^^j 


April 


1878. 


Charles  Kellogg 
Ellen  P.  Kellogg 
'Elias  Mollison 
Jennie  M.  P.  Stuart 


Louisa  M.    Berger 
Amandus  Berger 
Cornelia  H.  Scharfenberg 
Susan    Spring   Paton 
George    Douglass  Young 
Mary  Alice  Townsend  Q^f.  10,   1S78. 

Edith  Alitchell  admitted  on  profession 

Joseph   McC.   Leiper  p;iiza  Dewherst 

Marie   Louisa    VanVorst  Elizabeth   T.   Thompson 
Wm.   G.  Conklin  Chichester   Brown 

Elvira  B.   Bonney  John   Thomas  Buckwell 

John  Strain  gijza   Carson 

Allen  VanValkenberg  Matilda  Drysdale 
admitted  by  certificate  Bertha  Donaldson 
George  H.   Sibley  Thomas  Donaldson 

Margaretta  W.  Campbell  William  Davidson 
Martha  M.   Creagh  Sarah  Ebbits 

Samuel  H.  Van  Cleve       Lucy  Evans 
Edward  H.  Tobey  Sarah  Godefroy 


Bessie  H.   Tobey 
Anna  M.  Hawley 
M.  A.  Monahan 
Lizzie  Loran 
Nancy  Struble 
Xantha   Bartlett 
R.   E.  Morrell 


Aimee  Rose  Godefroy 
Jenny   Geonon 
Annie  Gleave 
Adolph   Gubner 
Alexander  Henry 
Annie   Keene 
Harriet  King 


Anne  Laville 
William   Moir 
O.   Ho   F.   Mittag 
Joanna  Mittag 
Elizabeth    Moore 
Louis   Meader 
Sarah   J.   Mugge 
Rosa   Newcomb 
Margaret  Phillips 
Adam    Roeder 
Abigail   Seaman 
Almoria   Seaman 
Eliza    Thompson 
Rebecca  S.  White 
Charles   L-    Weithaupt 
Banryena  Strack 
Frederica    Strack 
Lizzie  Marshall 

admitted  by  certificate 
Robert   Mitchell 
Mary   A.    Mitchell 
Clara  P.  Brown 
Kersey   S.    Blake 
Allan   Sterling 
Maggie  A.    Sterling 
Caroline    Dewherst 
Adelaide   J.    Alcott 
Catherine  M.  Jones 
C.  P.  L.   Butler,  Jr. 
Wm.   Lawson 
L.   M.    Davenport 
John  Davidson 
Mary   C.   Davidson 

Nov.  6,  1878. 
admitted  on  profession 
Harriet  Stoll 
Elizabeth    Decker 
Sarah  Jane  McGill 
Mary   Ann    Dougan 
Sarah  Jane  Wilson 

admitted  by  certificatb 
Mary   Stevenright 
Sarah  Cook 
John  B.  Morrison 

Dec.  5,  1878. 
admitted  on  profession 
Susan   DeForest   Day 
Agnes  C.   Moen 
Lena   T.    Crawford 
Jennie  ISL   Havemeyer 
Margaret  Hollenback 
James   R.  Jesup,   Jr. 
Annie  T.  Morgan 


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Louisa  E.  Japy 
Henry  D.   Anderson 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATB 

Edward  A.  Moen 
Mary  C.   Moen 
Isabella  Thompson 
Margaret  McCarrol 
Robert   P.   McBride 
Eliza  E.  Lindor 
Caroline  M.   Robinson 
Thomas  A.  Patterson 
Mary  Jones 
Lizzie  R.  Jones 
Robert   Davie 
Walter  D.  Buchanan 
Jane   D.   Buchanan 
Thomas  Kerr 
Mrs.  Kerr 

Feb.  9,  1879. 

ADMITTED   ON    PEOFESSION 

Mahlon  D.   Stamback 
John  I.  T.   Luquecr 
Thomas   E.    Turner 
Herbert  B.  Smith 
Annie  J.   Duncan 
Laura  L.    Cochrane 
Annie   C.  A.    Smith 
S.  Barton  French 
Zelie  Matti 
Mary   E.    Haines 
Martha   Eager 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

James  C.   Sheldon 
Jane  M.  Sheldon 
Jeannie    Sheldon 
Emmeline  B.  Webb 
Rebecca  M.   Biggam 
Eliza  Cinnamon 
F.  D.  Winston 
W.  McDowell  Halsey 
Wm.   Donaldson 
Thomas  B.   Stewart 
Marietta  C.  Stewart 
Elizabeth  M.   Stewart 
Perez  M.   Stewart 
Candace    I.    Sheperd 
E.    Gwynne 
James  F.  Brodie 
B.  Howard  Bent 
H.    H.    Henry 
J.   L.   Adams 
Helen  D.  Adams 
J.   L.    Adams,  Jr. 
K.  Smith  Blake 


April  10,   1879. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

James  Trimble 
Martha  Trimble 
Margaret  T.  Donaldson 
Maggie  Stratton 
Cornelia  M.  Cunningham 
Marie  Louise  Campman 
Marie  Scott  Boyd 
Jane  O.  Thompson 
Cordelia  Burt  Abbey 
Z.  Parish  Wheeler 
Eliza  Ann  Campbell 
Wm.  Van  S.  Thorne 
Nellie  J.  Paton 
Mary  J\L  Knecht 
Kate  L.  Evans 
Joanna  Evans 
Hannah  S.  Dillon 
Cora  D.  Wyckoff 
Katie  E.  Inglis 
Adam  Bruce 
Damaso  Mazaret 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Mary  Ann  Thompson 
Margaret  Shafer 
Sarah  A.  Boyd 
Julia  C.  Clark 
Julia  G.  Clark 
Samuel  Thorne 
Edwin  Thorne 
Margaret  B.  Thorne 
John  A.  Scribner 
C.  Matilda  Strang 
Henry  M.  Schiefflin 
Sarah  M.  Schiefflin 
Fanny  K.  Schiefflin 
Mary  B.  Schiefflin 
J.  H.  Howard 
Mary  Howard 
Wm.  H.  Katzenback 
Julia  E.  Katzenback 
Edwin  Langdon 
Thomas  Barclay 
Eliza  Barclay 

May    9,    1879. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Elizabeth  Gowdie 

May    29,    1879. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

Albertina  Niedling 
Catherine  Blackwood 
Anna  H.  Kohlsatt 
Maggie  A.  Burton 


Jennie  McKee 
Margaret  L.  Aliller 
Louis  L.  Jackson 
Mary  L.  Chedeayne 
Caroline  D.  Chedeayne 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Langdon  C.  Easton 
Elizabeth  M.  Easton 
Joseph  J.  Easton 
Langdon  C.  Easton,  Jr. 
Anna  L.  Stevenson 
Henry  B.  Barnes 
Elizabeth  D.  Barnes 
Eugene  L.  Mapes 

Oct.  9,   1879. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSIOK 

John  Hutton 
Enoch   Dutcher 
Agnes  Cochrane 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Cora  V.  Hutton 
Fanny  O.  Dutcher 
Wm.  V.  Brokaw 
Elizabeth  Brokaw 
George  Munro 
Catherine    F.    Munro 
Nicholas  Gwynne 
James  Irvine  Beatty 
Mary  P.  Adam 
Maria  L.  Adam 
W.  G.  Boal 
Edward  Gardner 
Frederick  I.  Stimson 
John  W.  Stimson 

Nov.  6,  1879. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSIOK 

Isabella  C.  Simpson 
Thos.  C.  Donaldson 

Dec.    II,    1879. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION" 

Julia  B.  Tod 
J.  Borden  Harriman 
Elizabeth  M.  Ford 
Fanny  A.  LaForge 
ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATS 
Richard  Brown 
Robert  Bruce 
Ann  Bruce 
Francis  H.  Leggett 
Flora  Remington 
John  Borland  Franklin 
John  K.  Tod 
James  Eckerson 


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John  E.  Eckerson 
Sarah  C.  Eckerson 
Maria  E.  Eckerson 
Anna  L.  Reynolds 
Lucy  B.  Jaudon 
Daniel  B.  Hatch 
Mary  E.  Hatch 
Clara  B.  Hatch 

Feb.    5,    iS8o. 


L,ydia  L.  Sanford 
Carrie  E.  Livingston 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATB 
Samuel  White 
James  Talcott 
Henrietta  E.  Talcott 
Arthur  Iv.  Hay 
Selma  E.  L.  VanDeurs 
Henry  M.  VanDeurs 
Micco  VanDeurs 


ADMITTED  ON   PROFESSION  j,^^  jj   VanDeurs 
Sarah  Blauvelt 


Lizzie  Roder 
Robert  W.  DeForest 
George  A.  Weber 
John  C.  Weber 
Charles  B.  Coffin 


Martha  H.  VanDeurs 
Minna  Pfeiffer 


Oct.  7,  i88o. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 
Isabel  Landreth 
ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Emily  McCall  Sheldon 


Sophia  McCready 
Helen  Kilpatrick 
Frank  E.  Stewart 
Caroline  B.  Alexander 
Emily  J.  DeForest 
Sarah  C.  Neal 
Joseph  Thomson 
Jane  L.  Thomson 
Catherine  Colquhoon 

April  8,  i88o. 


Wni.  H.  Wallace 
Louisa  Hoff 
Sarah  Pearson 
Charles  Kinne 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATB 

Edmond  Mosher 
Mary  Mosher 
Casper  Baker 
Emily  Dayton 
Abraham  H.  Dayton 


ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  Frederick  W.  Dayton 
George  S.  Bartlett  Mary  Alicia  Dayton 

Maitland  Alexander  Emily  Louisa  Dayton 

Bessie  T.  Agnew 
Jessie  Reynolds  Dec.  p,  i8So. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Fanny  J.  Young 
Alice  H.  Roosevelt 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Joseph  Labaree 
Amelia  D.  Sheffield 
Annie  Murray 
Wm.  B.  Jaudon 
Kate  K.  Jaudon 

Lucy  A.  Jaudon 
A.  Cameron 
Elizabeth  Cameron 

Robert  L.  Boyd 
James  Rankine 

May  6,  i88o. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Julia  Kenne 
Mary  Brovi'n 
Mamie  Nicoll 


Mary  Baldwin  Hyde 
Jonathan  Sturges 
James  D.  Eakin 
Lilly  Pirie 
ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATB 

Nathaniel  Gordon,  Jr. 
John  Porter 
Lizzie  Bell 
Mary  T.  Lord 
Mrs.  Richard 
E.  H.  Amerman 
Emmeline  Esdaile 
E.  A.  Stebbins 
Harry  G.  Hoff 
Frederika  B.  Beales 


June  3,  i88o. 
ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  Mary  A.  Watts 
Constance  Anerswild  C.  Amelia  Huntoon 


Jan.  6,  iS8i. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFSSSIOK 

Laura  Fisher 
Margaret  Doyle 
Robert  McGregor 
Annie  Glasken 
Elizabeth  Dillon 
William  Ferris 
William  Cook 
Ule  Jensen 
Eliza  Jenson 
Catherine  Voltz 
Clara  M.  Standerman 
Annie  Becker 
Magdalene  Bietch 
Mary  Heffe 
Isabella  McHenry 
Catherine  Fentulent 
Dora  Troshurtz 
John  Ahern 
Ellen  Ahern 
Helmina  Sherm 
Henry  White 
Mary  Ann  White 
Frederica  Schmidt 
August  Berger 
Carrie  R.  Berger 
Louise  Tepp 
Catherine  Koeler 
Catherine  Dietrick 
Mary  F.  Dietrick 
Margaret  Metzler 
Annie  Mack 
Louise  Schmidt 
Daniel  Bietch 
Mary  Peterkin 
Henry  Drussa 
Henry  Hammel 
Theresa  Hammel 
Matilda  Betcher 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATB 

Kate  Elizabeth  Watson 
Feb.    10,    i88i. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 
Rosina  Fry 
Paul  Stecker 
Johanna  Stecker 
John  Arnold 
Margaret  Arnold 
Louisa   Bauer 
Dorothea  Batzimaum 
Dorothea  Sierichs 
Margaret  Zeiber 
Alice  Zeiber 


Mtb  aticnue  Pre0^pterian  C|)utc|) 


255 


Margaret  Koberich 
Margaret  Metzler 
Alexander  Peterkin 
Henry  J.  Wendlekin 
Elizabeth  McAlister 
Stewart  Paton 
Eliza  Brown  Lord 
Alice  Jeannette  Bliss 
David  J.  Jackson 
Grace  Green 


ADMITTED  BY  CKRTIFICATB  ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICAT8 


Eliza   Barnaby 
Catherine  Stoddard 
Mary  E.  McKinney 
Robert  McKee 
James  Anderson 
Rachel  B.  Anderson 
Holmes  Conk 
Margaret  Burns 

April   7,    1881. 


Jane  Ray 
Joseph  Loveday 
Lydia  H.  Dunn 
Walter  L.  McCorkle 
Elizabeth   Pringle 
Harriet  A.  Lee 
Ellie  R.  P.  C.  Randall 
Theodore  D.  Bradford 
Margaret  D.  Leverich 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICAT8    ADMITTED   ON    PHOFESSION  J'  Seymour  Scott 


Agnes  McNab 

Jeannette  M.  Wheelock 

Joseph  A.  Wheelock 

James  Thomas 

Mrs.  Thomas 

Catherine  S.  Gilmer 

Sarah  A.  Gilmer 

Martha  M.  Gilmer 

David  J.  Garth 

Susan  C.  Garth 
Albert  M.  Bigelow 
Robert  J.  Carlisle 
Wm.  E.  Dodge 
Frank  Ferguson 
Alexander   Pirie 
Ann  Moore 
Catherine  McAlister 
Martha  McAlister 
Abbie  Wagenhals 


James  H.  Salmon 
Robert  C.  Mann 
Bessie  Alexander 
Augustus  R.  Moen 
Horace  S.  Ely 
Amelia  D.  Gorman 
Fanny  R.  McComb 
Adelaide  C.  Dickinson 
Frederick  B.  Ames 
Francis  P.  Magoun 
Mary  Alice  Smith 
Wm.  J.  Wallace 
Mary  Steen 
Kate  E.  Macy 


Oct.   I,   188 1. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFBSSIOK 

Louisa  Green 
Charlotte  E.  Brown 
Lizzie  C.  Sodtzer 
Edward  Y.  Weber 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATH 

Andrew  Reid 
Sidney  E.  Sinclair 
Mary  Jane  Maitland 

Nov.   10,    1881. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Thomas  N.  Morrison 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  James  K.  Scott 


March  10,  i88i. 


Maria  F.  Hodgina 
Mary  Diehl 
Dora  C.  Ash 
Jane  Hoey 
Julia  Yeager 
Francezi  Roberta 
Elizabeth  McKee 
James  Davis 
Catherine  Davis 
Wm.  Edwin  Davis 
Martha  W.  Burton 
Mary  Rice 
Louisa  Euler 
Caroline  Helbert 
Ann  Brown 
Charlotte  Douglas 
Mary  Ann  Douglas 
Catherine  A.  Clark 
Mary  Oakley 
Alfred  Ranagan 
Elizabeth   Birrell 


Andrew  Newhall 
Augustus  Phlager 
Margarette  Rubsamon 
James  Sebaugh 
Christina  Koberich 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 


Morton  V.  Brokaw 
Fanny  R.  G.  Ely 
Cornelia  H.  Coffin 
Clemina  H.  Hamilton 
Martha  J.  Sterling 

June  2.  188 1. ^„„.  ^^, 

ADMITTED  ON  PROFKisiON  ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  Isabella  McCron 
William  Hodgins  Henry  Wagner  Robert  Baxter 

Louise  Wagner 

Sophia  Loveday 

Ogaretha  E.  Goddard 

Loucia  O.  Benedict 

Robert  Wilson 

Mary  J.  Lavilie 

Julia  A.  Campbell 

Anna  May  Shafer 

Mary  Teodoroike 

Ellen  Scott 

Jennie  Scott 

Elizabeth  Fellgraph 

Eliza  McCusdy 

Catherine  Mangold 

Mary  Stephen  Rennee 

Margaret  M.  Roberts 

Clara  Campmann 

Otis  W.  Randall 

Mary  Pettigrew 

Margaret  McElroy 

Benjamin  Parr 


Mrs.  Baxter 

Dec.  8,   1881. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

John  Lorimer  Graham 
Florence  Carleton 
Nannie  Gordon  French 
Louis  Hallock  Schultz 
Ward  Beecker  Rowland 
Frederick  D.  Winant 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE, 

Laura  Schultz 
Rebecca  McCarroll 
Juliet  McCarroll 
Agnes  L.  Thompson 
Annie  H.  Vermilye 

Jan.  5,   1882. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Martha  Kennedy 
Emma  Geary 
Herman  Hahn 


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Emma  Hahn 
John  Mangold 
R.  F.  Adams 
Ellen  S.  Adams 
F.  W.  Gueist 
Caroline  Mirkall 
Sophy  Harbeck 
Maria  L.  Boppart 
Eliza  VonAesh 


Lizzie  Faulkner 
Margaret  Raven 
Lawrence  Heer 
Addie  Heer 
Barbora  Baxter 
Charles  B.  St.  Clair 
Philip  Schefer 
Augusta  Surhoff 
Frederick  Surhoff 
,  Louisa  Rubsamen 


Julia  Howgill 
Annie  McElath 
Emma  Evans 
Margaret  Laidlaw 
Catherine  Waldman 
Annie  Wildey 
Lena  Reinhard 
Anne  Miller 
Augusta  Breul 
Theresa  Greische 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  _  .        rj    ., 

John  T.  McCann  admitted  by  certificate  7,    !,    ° 

Teresa  McCann  EHza  S.  Berkeley  "a  Rothe 

Robert  Duncan 
Feb.  9,  iS82.  Elizabeth  Duncan 

ADMITTED  ON   PROFESSION  Wm.  A.  McKinny 


Fanny  L.  Miller 
John  Jay  Barger 
George  B.  French 
Bernard  Tucker 
Wilhilmina  M.  Tucker 
Augusta  Guerin 
Minnie  Spingler 
William  Sollperon 
Emma  Joyce 
William  H.  Moeller 


Eliza  J.  Wiley 
Sarah  Maclay 


April   6,    1882. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Helen  C.  Reed 
Charles  E.  Cloud 
Sophy  D.  Young 
Sarah  E.  Donaldson 
Sophia  L.  White 
James  E.  Matheson 
MiTTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Rudolph  G.  Berger 
Eliza  Howden 
Ellen  Jane  Frazier 
William  S.  Inglis 
Edward  D.  Smith 
Mary  J.  Smith 
Corinna  Smith 
Sarah  O.  Agnew 
Peter  Townsend 
Kinsley  Magoun 


Lewis  A.  Hyde 
Annie  Carson  Bruce 
Cordie  G.  Hammell 
E.  C.  Gaffield 
Margaret  Gaffield 
Annan  Sterling 
Mary  A.  Sterling 
Alice  Sterling 
Emma  Bishop 
Henrietta  Baker 
Eleanor  L-  Blakeman 
Henry  Hammell 
Theresa  Hammell 
Daniel  Winter 
Hannah  Winter 
Sarah  Ann  Winter 

March  g,   1882. 
ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSIOW 
Margaret  Meyer 
Mary  Gately 
John  Cain 
Frederick  Green 
Robert  Donaldson 
Edward  D.  Farrell 
Frederick  Burkhardt 
Hanna  Burkhardt 
Leonard  Zencada 
George  Faulkner 


Philip  F.  Schefer 

Jennie  Pritchard 

Louise  A.  Stock 

Elizabeth  Gueoin 

Charlotte  Muhlberger 

Wilhelmina  Sollheim 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIPICAT8 
Nancy  Orr 
Ellen  Bell 
John  King 
Ann  King 

June    I,    1882. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Helen  D.  Winant 
Agnes  Carpenter 
Elzy  Burkham 
Robert  J.  Hunter 
Genevieve  P.  Robbins 
John  H.  Giffen,  Jr. 
Maggie  L.  Giffen 
Horace  E.  Garth 
Lena  Garth 
Jeannie  McMahan 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATB    ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Charles  B.  Jaudon 
Hannah  C.  Thompson 
Christy  Ann  Campbell 
Mary  D.  Van  Winkle 
George  P.  Hinckey 
Eliza  J.  Hinckey 
Paul  Hinckey 
Mary  Hinckey 
William  A.  Copp 
Emily  M.  Copp 
Mary  Ann  B.  Sterling 
Jennie  T.  Bellups 

May   II,    1882. 


John  M.  McMahan 
Mary  J.  McElroy 
Cyrus  F.  Woods 
Josephine  K.  Woods 
Henrietta  C.  Tubble 
Alice  D.  Garth 
Edward  A.  Jones 
William  S.  Lines 
Jenny  Lines 
Mabel  Lines 
Mrs.  Barger 

Oct.  5,  1882. 
ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSIOIT 


ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  William  E.  Stevenson 
Thomas  Guest  Florence  McKee 

Alice  S.  Guest  Amelia  Lambeart 

Louisa  Harbeck  George  Merchol 

Katie  Harbeck  Lewis  Randolph  Smith 


jFifti)  amnue  ptesfipterian  Cburcft 


257 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Alice  H.  Gory 

Dec.  7,  1882. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

William  M.  Cowan 
Anna  M.  Cowan 
Maggie  Worthington 
Lena  W.  Hilbert 
Rachel  Goodwin 
Hannah  Thoman 
Eliza  Pierce 
Jane  Pritchard 
Maria  Anderson 
Thos.  Herbert  Williams 
Anton  VonSpengler 
Catherine  Schmidt 
Minnie  Hilser 
Charles  Sollheim 
Catherine  Gruen 
William  Beyer 
William  Scullion 
Margaret  J.  Scullion 
Isabella  Wilson 
Hattie  A.  Robinson 
Seth  B.  Robinson 
Lizzie  B.  Zshock 
Elizabeth  G.  Munn 
Annie  M.  Pultz 
Jennie  K.  Eraser 
L  Q.  A.  Gilmore 
Mary  L.  Walker 
Catherine  E.  Walker 
Stephen  O.  Todd 
Edith   P.    Stratton 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Wariah   I.   Davenport 
William  Cochran 
Margaret  I.  Cochran 
John  McDonald 
Mary  H.  Bogles 
Kate  Koontz 
Kitty  O.  K.  Smith 
Alfred  L.  Edwards 
Arabella  S.  Edwards 
Anna  May  Palmer 
Katy  Haff 
William  Stevens 
Robert  Dobson 

Feb.    8,    1883. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Gertrude  B.  Tefft 
Maggie  Mclntyre 
Louis  Smith 
Edwin  Augustus  Richard 


Edgar  M.  Smith 
Arthur  Irving  Taylor 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Kate  Murchison 
Jeannie  E.  Murchison 
Frank  W.  Taft 
Mary  Abigail   Mellick 

March  8,   1883. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Lillie  Kennedy 
Margaret  Dickinson 
Mary  Jane  Campbell 
Emma  E.  Scott 
John  Schefer 
Alfred  Nelson 
Grace  Nelson 
Maggie  I.  Andrews 
William  Granger 
Catherine  D.  Robinson 
Julia  Crawford 
Audrey  T.  Crawford 
Jessie  A.  Sloane 
Isaac  A.  Edmonds 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
John  Brown 
Lizzie  Brown 
Adolphus  N.  Tucker 
Elizabeth  McColl 
Mary  Nicol 
Mary  Riley 
Emily  Lauderbach 
Ettie  Lauderbach 
George  M.  Grant 
Ella  W.  Grant 

May   31,    1883. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Elizabeth  Anderson 
Margaret  Worthington 
Susie  Day 
Mary  Teodovski 
Maxamillian  Teodovski 
Henry  Raven 
Minnie  Burton 
Ella  B.  A.  Tucker 
Josephine  A.  Thomson 
Nancy  McHravy 
Margaret  Berrian 
Luola  Murchison 
Frank  M.   Hurlbut 
Albert  E.  Seibert 
Kate  Morgan  Brookfield 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Tames  Eadie 


J.  Mackensie  Eadie 
Mary  K.  McLauchlin 
Susanna  L.  W.  Marshall 
Charles  Hamilton 
Rachel  A.  Hamilton 
George  Oliver 
Sarah  J.  Olicer 
Nettie  Smith 
John  H.  Magowan 

Oct.    II,    1883. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSIOM 
Lizetta  Maria  Bahr 
Ida  Berger 
Annette  Berger 
Sarah  L.  Meeks 
James  Hall 
Josephine  Treat 
Mary  \^alentine 
Martha  H.  Meyers 
Edwin  H.  Burgess 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATB 

Edward  A.  Treat 
Alice  Paterson 
Augusta  A.  Thomas 
Charles  M.  Jesup 
Catherine  Jesup 
Charles  S.  Campbell 

Nov.    8,    1883. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Richard  Blauvelt 
Margaret  Blauvelt 
Frances  R.  Hamilton 
Louisa  Guyer 
Mary  Rose 

Dec.    6,    1883. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Albert  Bechtold 

Sarah  Jane  Griffin 

August  Leiler 

Flora  Leiler 

Bernard  Joseph  Tucker 

Jane  White 

Mary  Elizabeth  White 

John  White 

Jane  Elizabeth  Smith 

Letitia  Young 

Eliza  Jane  McKinty 

Elizabeth  Mank 

Christina  Stroud 

Robert  G.  Stroud 

Thomas  A.  Campbell 

Katy  Day 

Archibald  Bishop 


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Elias  Burton  Hart,  Jr. 
Charles  I.  Hart 
Henry  W.  Hetherington 
Susie  L,.  Duncan 
Louise  L.  Fraker 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 


William  Main 
Annie  Main 
Stephen  K.  Crowell 
Mary  A.  Crowell 
David  Burns 
Mrs.  Burns 
Daniel  S.  Remsen 


Julia  E.  Cragin 

Rebecca  Ladew 

Elisha  R.  Wheelock 

Frankie  M.  Wheelock 

Nathan  Henry  Sabin 

Mrs.  Sabin 

George  B.  Sterling 

Annie  Smith 

E.  Burton  Hart 

Harriet  A.  Hart 

Lee  Canfield  Hart 

Henry  H.  Benedict 

Maria  Benedict 

John  McFeeters 

James  McFeeters 

George  Hunter  Brown 

Rachel  B.  Brown 

James  Brown 

Maria  Murray  Brown 

George  Hunter  Brown,  Jr. Louisa  Darche 


April  10,   J884. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Eliza  Schmalz 
Ivanna  Hoefele 
Matilda  Marx 
Henrietta  Maurer 
William  Martin 


Louise  Townsend  RemsonLauncelot  Sleigh 
Joseph  F.  Freibley 
Feb.    7,    1884.  Lilliam  Gwynne 

ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  Henry  A.  Wisewood 


Mary  J.  Andresen 
H.  Caroline  Andresen 
Robert  S.  Morris,  M.D 
Jane  A.  Moorhead 
Barbora  F.  Munro 
Richard  M.  Laimbeor 
Douglas  Ewell 
Carrie  Ewell 
David  D.  Schenck 
Katherine  Kaltinbeck 
Edith  W.  Carpenter 
Gertrude  H.  Abbey 


Danl.  Wheeler  Brown 
Margaret  M.  Hotchkiss 
Sarah  H.  Porter 
Cornelia  B.  Hotchkiss 
Myra  R.  Hotchkiss 
H.  L.  Ladew 
J.  H.  Ladew 

Jan.    10,    1884. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Samuel  Flannigan 
Charles  Cretty 


Edith  Agnew 
Catherine  Nash  Agnew 
Louisa  H.  Southvnck 
Agnes  C.  Inglis 
Grace  L.  Houghton 
Louisa  Sheffield  Brownell 
Henry  Ivison  Parsons 
Francis  Edgar  Talcott 
Arthur  Whiting  Talcott 
Nathan  W.  Horton 
Effie  Penniman 
Jessie  P.  Andresen 
Eudora  Symington 
ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  ^juj^^  jj.  Frame 

Mary  M.Stewart  Edward  C.  Moen 

Charles  Counon 
Mary  B.  Glenn 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATB 

Sarah  C.  Sloane 
William  Smith 
John  Smith 

J.  Gardner  Hammer,  Jr. 
Anna  B.  McClelland 
Nannie  M.  Grinnell 
Frank  Cazenove  Jones 
Emily  MuUholland 


Francis  H.  Amidon 
Ann  Amidon 
Marian  B.  Arms 
Maria  Chalmers 
Kate  Chalmers 
Mary  Snively 
Edward  Lapsley 
William  L.  Miller 
Olivia  M.  Brice 


Jan.    22,    1884. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Mary  McGronan 
Pauline  Gravenich 
Sarah  Lang 
George  H.  Devine 
Margaret  Schuhmacker 


March  8,   1884. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 
Maggie  Margaret 
Donaldson 
Maggie  Irons 
Alexander  Roy 
Kate  Roy 
Matilda  Barton 
Margaret  Cartwright 


May  8,  1884. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSIOW 

Maggie  Wilson 
Katherine  E.  Woolley 
Lottie  Berkeley 
James  Donaldson 
Carrie  Burchart 
Arthur  Pierce 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Sarah  Rafferty  Thomas  Reid 

Edwin  F.  Stanley  Barbara  Glimmenschmidt  ^yjjugj^  Patterson 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Henry  Cleavy 


Feb.  6,  18S4. 

ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  Robert  Young 
Annie  C.  Rinner  Peter  Bruce 

John  Hogg  James  Bruce 

JeanetHogg  Mary  Craig 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Jane   M.   Craig 
Jane  Anderson  Ann  Smith 


John  Stephenson 
Maria  C.  Stephenson 
Martha  McClellan 
Bella  LeMount 
Bella  S.  Pine 
Samuel  McCartney 


ififtf)  auenue  ptegtigterian  Cijurc!) 


259 


ADMITTED  BY  CEaTIFICATE 

Robert  Brown 
Annie  Brown 
James  Miller 
Anna  Kinley 
Lizzie  Wright 
Jennie  Hunter 
John  Parker  Cassidy 

May   zg,   1884. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Maria  Jane  Schafer 
Caroline  Mahl 
Emma  L.  L,eistner 
Sarah  L,.  Jather 
Anna  Weir 
Lizzie  Muhlberger 
Louisa  Bechtoldt 
Anna  Benhard 
William  Seiwert 
Maria  Louisa  Shepard 
Mary  Adelaide  Ulman 
Helen  Warren  Ulman 
Ida  Baldwin  Carleton 
Fielding  Gwynn 
Sarah  A.  Symington 
Evelyn  Susan  Thompson 
Agnes  Helen  Davis 
Charles  F.  Frothingham 
Mary  M.  Frothingham 
John  W.  Dowling,  Jr. 
George  B.  Dowling 
George  A.  Dixon,  M.D. 
George  Bliss  Agnew 
Cornelius  R.  Agnew,  Jr. 
Harriet  A.  Eckerson 
Grace  E.  Bliss 
David  C.  McBride 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

John  K.  Moore 
Elizabeth  Moore 
Anna  Duncan 
Thomas  Davidson 
Maggie  E.  Doig 
Julia  C.  Fowler 
Jennie  P.  Brown 
Anna  Knox  Mclntyre 
P.  McCombie 
Harriet  F.  Kelley 
Elizabeth  Hopkins 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Adeline  S.  Martin 
Charles  C.  McCarty 
S.  H.  Russell 
Guido  Bossard 
Emily  Charles 
C.  J.  Hanson 
Frank  Hall  Wright 
Annie  S.  Barrett 

Nov.  6,  1884. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Minnie  D.  Bunker 
Katie  Roese 
Catherine  M.  Lyman 
Lizzie  Miller 
Edith  S.  H.  Hahn 
Mary  Dixon  Karr 
Jane  Mclven 
Edward  Gumbart 
Robert  Hunter 
Jane  Ann  Calhoon 
Sadie  Wilson  Fallgroff 
Emily  P.  Hoepner 
Maggie  Miller 
James  Ackerson 
Theresa  Trossi 
Eliza  McCartney 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
John  Greeve 
James  Haughey 
Maria  Haughey 
Eliza  Haughey 
Violet  Haughey 
Mary  Dick 
Mary  L.  Renner 

Dec.    II,    18S4. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Joanna  Rechlin 
Thomas  Martin 
Sarah  Ann  Irwin 
Henry  Lewis  Stimson 
Candace  C.  Stimson 
Wesley  Fisk  Smith 
Caroline  L.  Gorman 
John  G.  Hurmuze 
Edith  Sinclair 
Ernest  H.  Lines 
Ada  Gwynne 


Sarah  P.  Dixon 

James  Reynolds 

Mrs.  Reynolds 

S.  M.  Blakeley 

Samuel  M.  Woodbridge 

Elizabeth  B.  Woodbridge 

E.  A.  Perkins 

Sarah  Hall 

S.  Edwina  Brown 

Robert  K.  Wick 

Ivan  P.  Balabanoff 

Charles  Davy 

Samuel  Semmes 

Jane  Renan 

Jan.  8,  1885. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Pauline  Departi 
Margaret  A.  Reid 
Mary  Hammell 
George  McCartney 
George  Waldman 
William  Birrell 
Annie  A.  Pov^ell 
Alice  Salt 
Lena  Muhlberger 
Kate  Bechtoldt 

Peb.  5,  1S85. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Augusta  C.   Winkhaus 
Harold  W.  Armstrong 
Bessie  Symington 
Janet  B.  Campbell 
Emma  J.  Frame 
A.  H.  Lipsett 
Henrietta  M.  L.  Kimber 
Maria  B.  Kimber 
Louisa  VanRensselaer 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Gustave  Burkle 
Maggie  Campbell 
Percy  L.  Klock 
Joanna  R.  Auchincloss 
Titus  K.  Smith 
Mrs.  Vanghan 
James  R.  Hatmaker 
Anna  A.  Brace 
Franklin  W.  Carlisle 
Dorothea  E.  Lundahl 


Oct.  p,  1884.  ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  March  12,  1885. 

ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  Frances  Mary  Chapin  admitted  on  professiok 

Arthur  Evans   Dornin       Charlotte  Judson  Blake       Margaret  Gray 
Sarah  Cecil  Henrietta  Blake  Emilie  Hand 

Mary  Campbell  Frances  Blake  Annie  Shaw  Ackerson 


26o 


Centennial  Celebration  of  tbe 


Katie  E.  Ackerson 
William  Meigh 
Matilda  Meigh 
James  Karr 
Minnie  Gumbart 
Robert  Boyd 
Etta  Carton 
Fanny  Monds 
Ellen  Cameron 
Jane  Wright 
Katie  Ellis 
Margaret  Barton 
John  McKenzie  Scott 

April   p,    1885. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFBSSION 

Mary  A.  Bottsford 
Rhoda  A.  Brannigan 
Adelaide  Makin 
Kate  Bortfeldt 
Howard  C.  Phillips,  Jr. 
Andrew  J.  Garvey 
Isabella  Garvey 
George  T.  Slade 
Henry  V.  D.  Black 
Howard  W.  Charles 
Mabel  VanRensselaer 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Eliza  Westervelt 
H.  M.  Alford 
Constant  A.  Andrews 
Mrs.  Andrews 
Andrew  McCosh,  M.D. 
Hartune  S.  Jenanyan 
Agnes  Mason 
Catherine  McCoU 
Christina  McColl 

May  7,  1885. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 
David  Henry  Miller 
Mary  A.  Murray 
Alta  Myra  Jost 
Lizzie  Cunningham 
Lizzie  Merkell 
John  Aird 
P.  J.  Bolton 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Mary  S.  Rannie 
Peter  Gait 
Eliza  Gait 
Lena  Weber 

June  4,  188 i. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Mary  Akin 


Wilhelmina  Busse 
Elizabeth  Frische 
Josephine  Fallei 
Ellen  J.  McHenry 
Margaret  A.  Lene 
Cora  Cutter 
Jennie  Logan  Dills 
Adele  DeBourgeois 

Chapin 
Sarah  D.  Raymond 
William  A.  Britton 
Sidney  Dillon 
William  D.  Stewart 
John  H.  Franklin 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Garret  F.  Wortendyke 
Emily  F.  Wortendyke 
Isaac  Adviance 
Thomas  Newell 
Teresa  C.  Webster 
D.  R.  Rodgers 
Elizabeth  VanZellor 

Oct.  8.  1885. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Wittie  C.  Johnson 
Alexander  Cunningham 
Annie  Birrell 
Meta  F.  Labaree 
Sarah   Frances  Hall 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

I.  C.  Martin 
J.  E.  Ducle 
John  L.  Penman 
Mary  DeWitt  Cuyler 
Cornelius  C.  Cuyler 
Eleanor  D.  G.  Cuyler 
John  L.  Fruauf 
Justine  D.  Fruauf 

Nov.  5.  1885. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Thomas  H.  Gray 
Susan  Gray 

John  Henry  W.  Giesche 
Jeanet  Stewart  Aird 
Annie  Argo  Gibson 
Prudence  Amxwell 
Alexander  Stewart 
Elizabeth  Stewart 
William  Pierson 
Augusta  Pierson 
Margaret  Reincke 
Julia  Loelbrich 
Mary  E.  Steinbacker 
Susie  Martin 


ADMITTED  BY  CEBTIFICAM 

John  McLean 
E.  McLean 
William  B.  Smith 
Robert  Stewart 
Robert  Graham 
Susan  Graham 

Dec.    10,    1885. 

ADMITTED    ON    FROFSSSION 

Eliza  Whinton 
Katie  G.  Bang 
Adele  Weber 
John  P.  Sheridan 
Elizabeth  W.  Duncan 
Mary  Wilson 
Mary  Faller  Sturges 
Louis  H.  Blakeman 
Alice  Brown  Lee 
Marion  Lee 
Joel  Wolfe  Thorne 
Samuel  Thorne 
Emma  Pauline  WildjC 
George  C.  Burgeois 
ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Alfred    Von   der   Muhll 
Anna  Von   der  Muhll 
Corinne  Flint 
William  Dulles,  Jr. 
Alice  E.  R.  Carrington 
Sarah  W.  Mott 
W.  A.  Tucker 
Addie  Tucker 
Jacob  Fruauf 
Emilie  Fruauf 
George  J.  Fruauf 
Charlotte  S.  Fruauf 
Philip  W.  Fruauf 
William  E.  Wheelock 
Henry  E.  Rowland 
Ella  L.  Rowland 
Sarah  T.  Fuller 
Dwight  B.  Hunt,  M.  D. 
Fanny  H.  Hunt 
Mary  L-  Francis 

Jan.  7,  1886. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFBSSIOK 
Mary  Seltzer 
Mary  Lyon 
Mary  Buckhardt 
Maggie    Humphrey 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Edward  E.  Williams 
Jenny  McComb  Greer 
Mary  O'Brien 
Emma  Humphrey 


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Feb.    II,    1886.  Margaret  Morrison  Caroline  Muller 

ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  David  Morrison,  Jr.  Mary  Kurz 

James  McClurg  Janet  E).  Hutchison  Marian  G.  Bradford 

Gertrude  Tod  Harry  B.  Guyton 

Fanny  R.  Perkins  ^"^    ^'    ■^**^-  Robert  M.  Beggs 

r~  n*    D   »  ADMITTED   ON    PROFBSSION  ^^   i        ^    t,    • 

2TZ     .    T  Kate  Bernstein  ,^,^'^"  O"  ^"^^ 

Effie  M.  Andresen  ,. .        „  William  M.  McGaw 

Poultney  Bigelow  Mary  Hassinger  William  W.  Hall 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  "^""^    3,    1886.  Helen  W.  Bulkley 

Hester  Crispell  admitted  on  profession  Alargaret  A.  Inglis 

John  M.  Bopp  E''^3  Richard  Alice  T.  Crawford 

Margaret  H.  Bopp  Caroline  D.  Morrison  Emily  V.  Sloane 

Louisa  L.  Williams  ^^^ily  Smedberg  Alice  V.  Shepard 

Susannah  W.  Hibbard  ^^^^^  L.  French  John  H.  VanVorst 

Sarah  E.  Tucker  Samuel  S.  Skinner  Clarence  A.  Cameron 

John  D.  Locke  ^-  ■^'''^^  Beggs  admitted  by  certipicatb 

Eugene  Stieger  Stuart  Duncan  Charles  Rutherford 

Mary  J.  Powell  Susan  E.  Hall  Harry  B.  Tolles 

Emma  J.  Powell  Alice  Sylvie  Fowler  Mary  D.  Carbee 

Anna  N.  Powell  admitted  by  certificate     •  ^*  Britton 

Flora  R.  Brown  Jardine  Wallace  R.  Dickinson  Jewett 

Gertrude  Brown  Mary  Davidson  Elise  S.  Jewett 

Anna  R.  Brown  Agnes  P.  Brown  Nydie  Dockey 

Agnes  M.Brown  Jennie  P.  Black 

March  11,  1886.  Charles  G.  Barrett 

admitted  on  profession  Oct.  7,  1886.  j\nn  L.  Barrett 

Frances  Green  admitted  on  profession  Mary  J.  Skidmore 

Gustie  Rose  Lizzie  Graham  ^gnes  Robertson 

Katie  Merkell  Mary  McKinley  Adolph  Obrig 

Mary  Mane  Annie  Hassinger  Clara  Obrig 
Hans  Johnston 

Aprtl  8,    1886.  Louisa  Kinney  Jan.  6,   18S7. 

ADMITTED  ON  profession  j^j^j;,^^  ^  Brownell  admitted  on  profession 

Elizabeth  P.  Brookes  Augustus  Luttman  Florence  Mollan 

May  Armour  Donald  M.  Shearer 

Florence  Adele  Sloane  admitted  by  certificate  ^^        Shearer 

Henriette  Lyonette  Sarah  Clelland  ^^^.^^.^^  g^_  ^^^.^ 

Edith  Shepard  Lizz.e  McLean  Margaret  Sneck 

Bertha  A.  Pupke  Josephine  Wheeler 

Emilie  F.  S   Pupke  Charles  W.  IMeloney  admitted  by  certificaTK 

Annie  P."  Walker  Antionette  B.  Taylor  Eliza  A.  Glenn 

Jessie  L.  Murchison  I-  ^-  Adger  Mullally  ^^^     ^^    ^^^^ 

Mary  D.  Campman  j^r^^_    ^^^   ^gg^  admitted  on' profession 

Josephine  M.  Cook  admitted  on  profession  Charles  Schultze 

Henry  K.  Pryor  Alexander  Donaldson  Catherine  B.  Moeller 

admitted  by  certificate  William  James  Frost  Charlotte  Weiss 

Wiley  L  Canfield  William  Haughey  Minnie  L.  Weber 

Jennie  S.  Cruikshank  Edward  Bottenus  Emma  T.  Weber 

Agnes  Whiting  admitted  by  certificate  ^^"'^  ^-  Sheridan 

Alexander  Cameron  Edward  McMullan  Emma  Gallup 

Jennie  Cameron  Mary  McMullan  Mary  Metzler 

Jessie  M.  Cameron  Samuel  Graham  Pauline  M.  Heieleman 

Mary  A.  Smith  Bertha  Piepenburg 

Annie  C.  M.  Hillsnan  Dec.  9,   1S86.  Martha  Wenz 

David  Morrison  admitted  on  profession  Sarah  E.  Armstrong 

Elizabeth  J.  Morrison  John  Muller  Hana  G.  Armstrong 


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Centennial  Celebration  of  fbt 


Annie  E.  Katzenbach 
William  C.  Dornin,  Jr. 
Harriet  V.  Crocker 
Alexes  B.  Garretson 
Maud  Irving 
James  A.  Macaulay 
Thomas  R.  A.  Hall 
Henry  T.  Hotchkiss 
Maria  J.  Gulbraudsen 

ADMITTED  BY  CEKTIFICATB 

Eliza  A.  Blake 
Harriet  C.  Blake 
Annie  Blake 
Sarah  Hall 
Harvey  E.  Fisk 
Mary  L.  Fisk 
Jane  A.  Havens 
Susan  M.  Havens 
Clarence  L-  Lewisjr. 

March  10,  1887. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Mary  Anderson 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Thomas  Scott 

April  7,    1887. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

William  McCullough 
Clara  Eisprish 
James  L,.  Washburn 
Alfred  C.  Cameron 
George  E.  Grover 
Sarah  M.  Mitchell 
Eleanor  O.  Brownell 
Elizabeth  W.  Barnes 
Henry  B.  Barnes,  Jr. 
Lillian  A.  Hall 
Wm.  B.  Lauderbaclc 
Douglass  Knox 
Mary  D.  Knox 
Jane  McClelland 
Frederick  B.  Fainton 
Maltus  I.  Newman 
Jacob  M.  Newman 
W.  S.  Lauderback 
Josephine  Hall 
Albert  W.  Lilienthall 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATS 

Sarah  Reid 
S.  E.  McCombie 
Oliver  Prentice 
E.  H.  Sniffer 
Maggie  Ingram 


May  4,  1887. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

George  A.  Duncan 
James  Clelland 
Henry  Clelland 
Ann  McFeat 
Annie  Webb 
Alexander  McFadden 
Catherine  McFadden 
Hugh  McCutchin 
Nellie  Graham 
Emilie  Rosch 
Susan  Flanigan 
L.  D.  Robertson 
Emma  Holmes 
Katie  Burnside 

ADMITTED  BY  CEETIPICATS 

Eliza  Black 

June  2,  1SS7. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 
Julius  J.  Herriman 
Mary  Thomson 
Russel  H.  Stebbins 
Samuel  S.  Stebbins 
Florence  R.  Carey 
Emily  A.  Wilson 
May  Mclntyre 
Malcolm  Graham,  Jr. 
William  A.  Richmond 
Lydia  Hutchinson 
Lizzie  McMullan 
Mary  J.  McMullan 
Margaret  C.  Kurz 
Mamie  E.  Reineke 
Thomas  Hudson 
Lillian  Lees 
Mary  Proudfit  Irvin 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Mary  J.  Graham 

Alice  S.  Stebbins 
Elizabeth  W.  Simmons 
Sarah  Hudson 
Jeanette  H.  Judd 
Mrs.   Samuel  McClure 

Nov.  JO,  1887. 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

David  Cunningham 
Edward  Charles  Lane 

Dec.  8,  J887. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Anna  Maria  Stehli 
Anne  S.  Agnew 
Maud  Anna  Earger 


Edna  Barger 
Reuben   Ross 
Henry  C.  Meyer,  Jr. 
Robert  Irwin 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATS 

Emile  Stepli 
Josephine  W.  Miller 
Samuel  Goeise 
Samuel  Milliken,  Jr. 
Hattie  F.  Milliken 
Edward  F.  Milliken 
Foster  Milliken 
Carie  F.  Milliken 
Hannah  E-  Dixon 
Dorothea  E.  Lundahl 
Oliver  P.  Lewis 

Jan.  5,  1S8S. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Lizzie  Yost 

Feb.  9,  jS88. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Elizabeth  C.  LeBourgeois 
Samuel  M.  Blakely 
Caroline  Emanuel 
William  Sloane 
Alexander  A.  Richmond 
John  D.  Ormsby 
Edgar  S.  Auchincloss,  Jr. 
Lilly  Whinton 
Daniel  McFadden 
Christian  Shue 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATB 

Mary  L.  Morris 
Susanna  Potter 
Mariana  M.  Lynke 
Mary  McKinnon 
Lizzie  Shields 
Lizzie  Madill 
Emma  Ormsby 
Eliza  Montgomery 
Frank  E.  Hoskins 
Nathaniel  M.  Bennett 
Malcolm  C.  Thompson 
McL.  P.  Stevenson 

March  8,   18S8. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Michael  Mantel 
Wm.  Cunningham 
Mamie  Andrews 

April  5,  1888. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Maggie  McNab 
Robert  McNab 


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263 


Frances  Rice 
Chu  Hum 

Minnie  P.  C.  Meyer 
Elizabeth  O.  Brower 
Isabella  E.  Leech 
William  A.  Campbell 
Ida  C.  Alcott 
Mary  B.  Green 
Nellie  Mclntyre 
Samuel  S.  Auchincloss 
William  R.  Wright 
Martha  M.  Hall 
Agnes  H.  Hall 
Archibald  D.  Davis 
Mary  E.  Davis 
David  H.  Taylor 
Camille  T.  G.  Hientze 
Alexander  McNichol 
Frances  Steele 


Oct.    II,    1888.  Lewis  Ross 

ADMITTED  ON  PROF8SSI0N  Isabella  Ross 


Frank  Lavery 
Augusta  Wintermeyer 
Mamie  Fintolet 
Elizabeth  Byle 
Francis  Loveday 
Edward  Raid 
John  Herndon  French 
Sarah  Ann  Spies 
Cochrane 
Horace  Porter,  Jr. 
Jennie  F.  Inman 
Willie  Lee  Inman 
Margaret  Grace  Inman 

ADMITTED  BY  CEETIFICATE 

Robert  Fisher 
Mrs.  Fisher 
Wesley  F.  Smith 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIPICATE  Nettie  Smith 


William  H.  Law 
Anna  C.  Lee 
Irvin  M.  Landis 
Isaac  Sluth 
Laura  EUinwood 
Mary  G.  EUinwood 
Laura  H.  EUinwood 
Carrie  H.  Lines 

May  31,    1888. 

ADMITTED    ON    PBOFESSION 

James  Notion 
Emma  Notton 
Sarah  Louisa  Notton 
William  Notton 
Mary  Jane  Perpenbring 
Eliza  I.  Ott 
Louis  Salzman 
William  Stewart  McNab 
Matilda  Stephenson 
Jennie  G.  E.  Andresen 
Elizabeth  Hawxhurst 

Crawford 
Emma  J.  Foster 
John  Stuart  White 
Annie  Smith  Carey 
Grace  Brett  Carey 
ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATS 

Gustavus  Gutbub 
Joseph  Corbit 
Ellen  Corbit 
Choo  Took 
Harriet  C.  Robinson 
Mary  L.  Robinson 
Amanda  M.  Skinner 


Marion  Murray  Cash 
Agnes  Black 
Mrs.  Martin 
William  Henry  Stuart 
James  McAdoo  Wilson 
Frances  Christie 

McCormack 
Isabella  McCormack 
Annie  Shaw  Frazer 
Janie  Anstell  Swann 

Nov.  y,  18S8. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Anne  Morrison 
Lena  Gardner 
Carrie  Murphy 
Mary  M.   Duncan 
Margaret  Richmond 
Maggie  Thoman 
George  W.  Wylie 
Bertha  Bachtold 
Ida  I.  Burton 
Sarah  Burnie 
Maggie  McLean 
Washington  I.  Moore 
Emma  L.  Moore 
William  I.  McKenzie 

Shearer 
Annie  Smith 
Mary  Mettal 
Nettie  Handt 


Elizabeth  O'Neill 
Hilah  Cronk 
Fred  John  Cage 
Lizzie  Cage 
William  Morrison 

Dec.  6,  1888. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 
Emily  Page 
Eloise  Stevenson 
Matilda  Ormsby 
Clara  Richmond 

Brandford 
Samuel  Morris  Pentland 
Henry  M.  Andresen 
Mary  A.  Doherty 

ADMITTED  BY  CEBTIPICATB 

Jane  Jackson 
R.  McBratney 
Howard  Payson  Wilds 
Judson  Boardman  Wilds 
James  Muir 
Margaret  Farmer  Muir 
Isabella  Ross  Muir 
Margaret  I.  Muir 
M.  McGinniss 
Halda  L.  Labaree 
Maria  Moreland 
Agnes  Robertson 

Feb.  7,  1889. 

ADMITTED   ON    PBOFESSIOH 

Ida  Guerin 
Katie  Loez 
James  Morrison 
James  Clark 
Mamie  Irons 
Lizzie  Roebeck 
Charles  Roebeck 
William  MacGregor 
Margaret  Ann  IrwMi 
Jung  Look 
Henry  C.  Adams 
Letitia  Laughlan 
Annie  Doscher 
Louis  Gross  Smith 
Johnston  DeForest 
Thomas  H.  Burton 
Maria  Morrison 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIEICATE    ADMITTED  BY  CERTIMCAI* 

W.  J.  Green  Alexander  Weir 

Hannah  Jane  McComb        Mary  Weir 

Green  Maria  Haughey 


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Eliza  Haughey 
Violet  Hughes 
Maggie  Haughey 
James  E.  Plaughey 
John  Brown 
Elizabeth  Brown 
Mary  Rice 
Wilhelmina  Buttle 
Robert  Hillis 
John  Miller 
Mary  E.  Corbit 
Margaret  Gair 
Sophia  Gilmour 
Bella  Watson 
James  H.  Schmelzel 
Annie  Louise  Schmelzel 
Mary  Norman 


Mary  McGay 
Oliver  G.  Prescott 
I.  C.  Marshall 
Isabella  Gardiner 
Nancy  Irwin 
Hariman  Slingerland 


Warner  VanNorden 

Mrs.  Martha  P. 

VanNorden 

Miss  Emma  P.  Van- 
Norden 

Warner  VanNorden,  Jr. 


Annie  Margareth  Victor  Theodore  E.  VanNorden 

Miss  Margaret  Currie 
May    15,    1889.  ,.•      ,T        ■    r- 

■'     ■"         ^  Miss  Maggie  Cooper 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION  t  u  t>      ir 

T  .     .    ,,r  ,  Joseph  Baillie 

Eizzie  Walgner 


Louise  Burkardt 
Agnes  L.  Ramppen 
Florence  Spoule 
P.  William  Gatt 
Louise  Pfluger 
Katie  Euler 
Gussie  Giesche 
Martha  Burton 
Dors  Zander 
Dors  Roebeck 
Clara  Failes 
Lizzie  Mebin 
ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  ^^^;^  McCartney 

M"-Bell  M.F.  Pfluger 

Joseph  Dunbar 

Peter  Grant  May   so,    1889. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

April  IJ.   1889.  Henry  S.  Thompson 

ADMITTED  ON   PROFESSION  Frank  Joseph  Bristol 


March  8,  1889. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Peter  Euler 
Mary  Chatterton 


Rose  Merkall 
Arthur  Scholl 
August  Gahrmann 
Minnie  Gahrmann 
Mamie  Aitken 
Augusta  Reineke 
George   F.   Victor 
Emma  C.    VanBoskerck 

tr     ,     „      „      ,  ,>,      .  ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Isabella  Graham  Marbury  ^^^^.^  ^.,j.^^^ 


Archer    Coit    Sinclair 
Miss  Lulu  Woodville 

Cragin 
Mrs.  Rosa  Hellen  Koster 
Miss  Meta  Rosa  Koster 
Miss  Lillie  Forecamp 
Minnie  Cochrane 


Elizabeth  A.  Eraser 
Emily  Madill 
William  H.  Brown 
Marie  Louise  Mott 
Margaret  Elliott 
Arthur  Herbert  Bliss 
Magdalena  Heintze 
James  Green  Carson 


Miss  Sarah  I.  Walsh 
Miss  Sarah  McPhail 
Miss  Emma  C.  Jenkins 
John  Thomas  Trimble 
Christina  McKenzie 


Mrs.  Agnes  Galway 
Mrs.  Maria  Donnelly 

Nov.  7,  18S9. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

Mrs.  Lena  Smith 
Miss  Magdelen  Freyer 
Miss  Elsie  Schorm 

Dec.  5,  1889. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

Mrs.  Margaret  Jane  Lynn 

Benjamin  W.  B.  Brown 

Chu  Ahr  Chew 

James  Anderson  Hawes 

Mary  Eliza  Irwin 

Miss  Alice  Warner  Work 

Miss  Sallie  Duncan  Work 

Miss  Mabel  \V.  Work 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Thomas  Gwin 
Granville  Ryan  Smith 
Mrs.  Annie  Dickinson 

Smith 
Mrs.  Ellen  C.  McLain 
Miss  May  C.  McLain 
Charles  I.  McLain 
Ralph  McLain 
James  Cunningham 
Mrs.  Nicoll 
George  Irvine 
Mrs.  Annie  Hopper 
John  A.  Brown 

Feb.  6,  1890. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 
Thomas  Kerr 


Oct.  10,  1889. 
ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  John  Morgan 
West  Montgomery  CarsonMiss  Susannah  Preston  Thomas  Grey 
Lizzie  Evelyn  Beggs  ^ges  Albert  S.  Flannigan 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Miss  Mabel  Hedges  Miss  Ollie  H. 


Edward  Munro 
Bridget  Munro 
Catherine  McDonald 
Chu  Jim 
D.  Milton  Fish 
James  McGay 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  LaChappelle 

Mrs.  Sarah  A.  Ackerman   Miss  Augusta  E. 
James  Turner  Ackerman  Mandelton 

Allen  Barr  Miss  Mary  E.  Bailey 

Miss  Laura  Withington       Mrs.  Katie  Loos 
David  H.  Irwin  Mrs.  Mary  Stevert 


jTifti)  atjenue  preslsgtetian  C!)urc&         265 


Miss  Louisa  Lechte 

Mrs.  Bertha  Lonicke  Mrs.  Mary  Townson 
Frederick  Thor  Sheldon 

Louis  Siebert  Colin  Livingstone 

Mrs.  Catherine  Hanische  Miss  Mary  Ann  Devany 

Mrs.  Amanda  Geisel  James  Cunningham 

Mrs.  Mary  M.  John  C.  Martin 

Featherstone  Mrs.  Emily  D.  Martin 

Miss  Dora  Cecilia  Mrs.  Annie  C.  Spencer 

Sievert 
Miss  Catherine  Mercer 


Daniel  Henry  Rohrabaughjohn  Newbold 

Mrs.   Sarah  Newbold 
Frederick  Notion 
Mrs.  Annie  Rice 


May 


1890. 


Charles  Magnus 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICAT8 
Mrs.  Catherine  Brookz 
Miss  Catherine  Clara 

Brookz 
Miss  Vera  F.  Douglas 


Glassy 
Miss  Helen  Ells  Homans 
Neill  MacNeill 


^-„^,«xT  John  Heron 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION  "^  m       •    ^^      -d     C      -tt, 

,,,  ,^      „  Mrs.  Marietta  P.  Smith 

Walter  Dunn 

Mrs.  Martha  Mana  Dunn 


Miss  Lillie  Adams 
ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  William  Gardinier 


Nov.    6,    i8go. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

/iu/j«ii±  1^1- "-  — ,,.i^ic»ii — •- Mrs.  Joanna  Benge 

Mrs.  Sarah  C.  Andrews     Miss  Elizabeth  I.  GiUespiechauncey  Chadwick 
Miss  Blanche  E.    Roscoe  gniott  F.  Shepardjr.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Chadwick 

H.  A.  Underv.-ood  Jesse  P.  Whiton  Miss  Lucy  Green 

Dr.  Samuel  Alexander         Dr.  Edwin  R.  ChadbourneMiss  Annie  Rosch 

James  A.  VanWa'genen       Miss  Katie  Rosch 

Miss  Alice  Maud  Taintor     admitted  by  certificate 
ADMITTED  BY  certificate  Samuel  Fisher 

Augustus  W.  Pfluger 

Mrs.  Ada  Rothe  Pfluger 


Samuel  B.  Schieffelin 
Mrs.  Lucretia  Hazard 

Schieffelin 
Miss  Jessie  Asher 
Mrs.  Josephine  Buroonz 

Miss    Marjorie    EUinwood'^'^^j^j  ^^■,^xi3.m  Trimble 
Miss  Jeannie  Ellinwood      ^^^_  g^^.^^  j^j_  B_ 
Miss  Lucy  Ellinwood 
Mrs.  Almira  D.  Sherwood, 


Conkling 
'Mrs.  Delia  M.  Conkling 
March  6,   1890.  Moller 

ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  D.  Paul  Borleigh 
George  Riley  Conkling 

William  Bierman  Miss  Natalie  Burleigh 

Conkling 
April  10,    1890.  Miss  Edith  Wylde 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Miss  Louise  Delaplaine 

Rowland 
Winthrop  Bliss 
Miss  Cora  Louise 

VanNorden 
William  Wirt   Phillips 
Miss  Ethel  Copp 
James  McLain 
Miss  Marion  Pierce 

Champlin 


Oct.  p,  i8go. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

Charles  Graham 
Miss  Lizzie  Waldman 
Miss  Susie  Gardner 
Miss  Ella  Meyer 
Miss  Martha  Henning 
Mrs.  Sophia  Sievert 
Miss  Minnie  Gutbub 
Miss  Francis  Forecamp 

Miss  Ettie  Amelia  Jordan  Miss  Lizzie  Kramer 

Mrs.  Anna  Louise  Albert   Guerin 

Livingstone  Thomas  Reineke 

Mrs.  Estelle  Chamberlain  jQ^n  Miller 
ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  John  Hollings 

Mrs.  Mary  G.  Janeway        Charles  M.  Grevning 


Mrs.  Jane  Wilkie 
Miss  Annie  Wilkie 
Herman  Warzawiak 
Miss  Maggie  McCreery 


Mrs.  Mary  Breitfield 
Mrs.  Catharine  Henser 
Charles  Kramer 
Adam  McMullen 


Dec.   II,    1890. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

Mrs.  Gesine  Heidrick 
Miss  Lizzie  Phillips 
Miss  Carrie  Bietsch 
Mrs.  Mary  Graham 
Miss  Clara  Schade 
John  Gilliland 
Addison  Atwater 
Mrs.  Amelia  Atwater 
Ferdinanda  de  Chiara 
Miss  Elizabeth  D.  Young 
Phillips  Smalley 
James  Alexander  Beggs 
William  John  Hall  Beggs 
Mrs.  Gertrude  P. 

Gemmell 
F.  C.  H.  Wendell 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Miss  Lucinda  F.  McKee 
Miss  Florence  H.  Gilmor 
Miss  Addie  M. 

Chadbourne 
Edwin  J.  Gillies 
Miss  Florence  A.  Gillies 
James  F.  Hunt 
Miss  Annie  M.  Galbraith 

M.D. 
Mrs.  E.  I.  Bacon 

Jan.  8,  1891. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Miss  Elizabeth  Koff 


266 


Centennial  Celebration  oC  tl)e 


Miss  Emma  Burkhardt 
Bruno  Schmidt 
Otto  Strewe 
Harold  Brooks 
Alexander  Aitken 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Miss  Florence  Mollan 

Feb.    5,    1891. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

James  B.  Wilson 
Henry  Lockwood 

DeForest 
Henry  Sloane  Coffin 
Edward  Russel  Thomas 
Lawrence  Thornton 

Bliss 
Miss  Mary  Lowry 

Moorhead 
Henry  Berry  Britton 
E.  Delafield  Smith 
Murray  Brown 
Miss  Sophia  Johnston 
Mrs.  Carrie  Richards 

Wright 
Miss  Carrie  Bell 

Ainsworth 
Louisa  Bretsch 
Martha  Kerchner 
Mrs.  Hannah  Stassing 
Miss  Martha  Stassing 
Mrs.  Mary  Zempleman 
John  Zempleman 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Mrs.   Sophea  Rhea 

Dulles 
Elizabeth  Anderson 
Miss  Maggie  Thoman 
Miss  Matilda 

Wegerbacher 
Wilbur  C.  Fisk 
Alexander  G.  Fisk 
Mrs.  Louisa  Fisk 
Miss  Mary  Louisa  Fisk 

April  10,   iSgi. 
Miss  Ida  Maria  Frame 
Miss  Florence  Robena 

Frame 
Miss  Priscilla  Dixon 

Barnes 
Mrs.  Edith  Williams 

Dowling 
Chu  Een  Chow 
Forsyth  Wickes 


Miss  Catherine  Andrews 

C.  Dodge 
Miss  Mary  Emiliana 

Schiessler 
Joseph  Hay 
Walter  Kirkpatrick 

Bryce 
Miss  I.  Bell  Duncan 
Richard  Hall  Burton 
Albert  Adett 
Louis  Bruckle 
Katie  Flanigan 
Alma  Lundstrong 
Minnie  McCann 
Julia   Rosch 
Francis  Harbeck 
Bernard  Golde 
George  Kurtz 
Mrs.  Clara  Grass 
John  Seibert 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATlJ 

Willard  C.  Reid 
Miss  Isabella  Hall 
Miss  Armavenie  W. 

Ishkanian 
Dr.  James  B.  Woods 
George  Georgeson 
Miss  Christina  Campbell 

May    27,    i8gi. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Mrs.  Anna  Costello 

Ropes 
Mrs.  Emily  Wendel 
Mrs.  Maria  Curtiss 
Frederick  Sturges,  Jr. 
Edward  Payson  Beach 
Chu  Bell 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Alexander  Daletty 
Dr.  Peter  B.  Wyckoff 
Mrs.  Sarah  Beach 
John  Burnside 
Miss  Mary  Graham 

Oct.    3,    1891. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 
William  Henry  Vogel 
John  Werner 
Mary  Werner 
Miss  Dors  Tucker 
George  Grimm 
John  Weinsdoffer 
Mrs.  Therese  Johannas 
Miss  Kate  Herman 


Miss  Ada  Muller 
Jeannette  D.  Mason 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATB 

Mrs.  Addison  H.  Deane 
Mrs.  Annie  Trimble 
Miss  Caroline  Kopf 
Miss  Mamie  Kopf 
Miss  Jennie  Birrell 
Hugh  McKinnon 
Robert  Fraser 
Catharine  A.  Fraser 
J.  Aspinwall  Hodge,  Jr. 
Genevieve  Karr  Hodge 
William  Guthrie 

Dec.   10,    iSgi. 

Miss  Louise  Isabel  Fisk 

Miss  Bertha  Fisk 

Miss  Evelyn  Louise  Fisk 

Miss  Catharine  Gardiner 

Leon  Ling  Jong 

Miss  Edith  Earle 

David  Magie,  Jr. 

Robert  Dun  Westcote 

Charles  F.  Sanborn 

Miss  Katherine  Thomp- 
son Westcote 

Miss  Mary  Robbins 

Miss  Margaret  Smith 

Miss  Catherine  Sanford 
Agnew 

Miss  Ida  A.  Gahrman 

Miss  Nellie  King 

Miss  Johanna  Kirdiner 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Miss  Bessie  MacKenzie 
Mrs.  Isabella  Ray 
Miss  Jane  Lindsay 
Miss  Helen  Broadfoot 
Miss  Margaretta  R. 

Anthony 
Richard  A.  Anthony 
Cornelia  B.  Nev/combe 

Baulmier 
George  R.  Fiske 
Louisa  M.  Fiske 
Dr,  George  Woolsey 
Mrs.  Clara  N.  Earle 
Isaac  Piatt 
Edmund  M.  Morris 
Hugh  Getty 
Martha  Jane  Getty 
Mrs.  Emma  Brown 
John  C.  Graham 


jFiftI)  atjenue  pceg&gterian  CfjutcJ) 


267 


Mrs.  Graham 
Frank  Graham 
Muss  Maria  Potter 
Miss  Catharine  Bates 

Feb.    II,    1892. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

Miss  Helen  Isabella 

Munro 
Miss  Emily  L.  Janeway 
Miss  Louise  Bank 
George   Alfred    Schastey, 

Jr. 
Hugh  Martin  Inman 
Emory  Hawes 
John  Vosburgh  Irwin 
Miss   Ethel   de   Forest 
William  Hawkhurst 

Wheelock 
Miss  Lydia  Anne 

Thorne 
Chu   Hoy 
Robert  Glassey 
Miss  Emily  I,eslie 

Charles 
Paul  Albert  Seyerle 
Albert    Seyerle 
Jacob   J.    Schuttinger 
William   B. 

Schmidtkiencey 
Emil  Arnold 
Charles   P.    Faller 
Henry  William 

McMullen 
Robi   Roefs 
Henry   Stein 
Miss   Susie   Schott 
Herman    Geo.    Bahr 
Hugh    R.    MacMullen 
Henry  W.   Miller 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATB 

Robert  Pettigrew 
William   V.    Martin 
Mrs.    Anna    MacBratney 
Euphemia   Anderson 

Vose  Hawes 
William   Thorne 
Annie   Thompson 
Warren  A.   Mayon 
Miss  Susan   Potter 
Mrs.  Barbora  F. 

Schureman 


Miss  Annie  L,.  Vaubel 
Miss   Katie    A.    Bullser 
Miss   Emma   Eisberg 
Miss   Katie    Eisberg 
Miss    Susan   Alexander 

McCook 
Miss    Anna    Von    der 

Muhll 
James   Wright 
James  I,eishman 
Miss    Florence    Dillon 

Wyckoff 
Miss  Katharine  Homans 
Miss   Frances   Elsie 

Hemans 
Miss  Elizabeth  Ellen 

Auchincloss 
Hugh  Auchincloss 
Mrs.   Margery 

Kernaghan 
Henry   Rowland 
James   Graham    Parsons 


Miss  Mary  Margaret 

Disch 
John   Burns 
Annie   Burns 
Miss   Henrietta 

Borchardt 
J.   Franklin   Burdett 
ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

William    Disch 

Mary  Elizabeth  Disch 

George  W.   Disch 

Oct.  6,   1892. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

Wm.    H.    Hayden   Miller, 

Jr. 
Mrs.   Mary  Eva   Baur 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

R.  I,.  Maynard 

Dec.  8,  1892. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Richard    Wilson 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Mrs.    Carrie   Wilson 
J.  Harry  Hall 
Maxwell  P.  Johnstone 
Lillie  Johnstone 
Charles   Kernaghan 
Edward  G.  Cone 
Sarah  W.    Cone 
Miss  M.    Caroline    Cone 
Miss   Lizzie   M.   Cone 
Mrs.   Annie   Fary 
Mrs.    Kate   Gilderson 
Mrs.    Frances    E. 

Homans 
Miss  Annie  Brown 


May  22,    1892. 


William    Ribiero 
Mrs.  Anna  Ribiero 
Mrs.    Carrie   Wagner 
John   Taylor 
Miss   Susan   C.   Beach 
Mrs.    Catharine 

Wynsoffer 
William  Madtis 
Miss    Mary    Agnes    Clink 
Charles   Wayne   Wenz 
Miss     Lulu    Vanderbilt 

Sloane 
Miss  Marguerite 

Shepard 
Charles   L.    Jones 


Apr.  7,  1892. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Julius  Gahrman 


ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  Miss   Evelyn    Sloane 
Robert   Robertson  Miss  Grace  Talcott 

Wolcott   Phelps   Robbins    admitted  by  certificate 
Thomas    Carby    Webster  Mrs.    Augusta    Clarisse 
Miss  Bertha   Baur  Winkhaus 

Miss  Martha  A.  Dawley  Robert  B.   Mcllvain 
John    Scott    Boyle  Miss  Jennie   Gilmore 

admitted  by  certificate  ^'^^^-   Mary  D.  Jones 
A.    Donald    Robertson        J°h"  C.  Angell 
Chu   Son   Yon  Miss  Armon  Harman 

E.    Francis   Hyde  Noah   C.   Rogers 

Martha  E.   Hyde  Mrs.    Annie    S.    Rogers 

Mrs.  Fannie  C.  Burnham-'^'^^  Catharine  H. 
McGregor 
June,  1892.  Donald  Cameron 

admitted  on  profession  Mrs.   Anna  M.  Harkness 
William    Disch,    Jr.  Miss    Florence    Harkness 


268 


Centennial  Celetitaticn  ot  tije 


Frederick  A.    Brush 
Franklin  M.  Parlett 


Chu   Lung 
Chu    Seng 
Miss   Frances    Russell 
P'^-  9.  ^^93.  Taintor 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Miss  Ella  F.  M. 


Mrs. 


Annie    Warner 
Handy 


Wiegland 
Miss    Ida    Boffinger 
William   L.   F.   Mickley 
James   Hazen  Hyde 
Miss    Edith    Charlotte 

Talcott 
Henry    Arthur  Kimber 
Norman   Peck 
Arthur   Nelson   Peck 
Raymond    Boyd   Thomson 


Wm.  John   Folan   Getty 
William  McGoun 
Charles  Prentice 

Kellogg 
Edwards   Pierrepont 

Rowland 
Wm.    Patrich    Ormsby 
Miss  lyizzie  Augusta 

Thayer 
John  Andrews 
William    Osterlee 


■.,.        T  Ai  J       Henry    Fagan 

Miss    Janetta   Alexander  ^.^^    ^^^^.^^.^^^   teller 

McCook 
Miss  Jean  Sharon  Work    admitted  by  CERTIFICATE 
Miss    Harriet   Wilmot       ^'^"-   J^ne   Wiley 

Leverich  Mrs.    Emilie    Pritchard 

James   H.    Campbell 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  j^j^^_    ^^^^.^^    ^^^^^^^ 
Mrs.    Catherine    Stephen 
Mickley 


Theodor    F.    Lozier 
Miss  Mary   McCallion 
John   H.    Person 
Alexander  J.   Bruen 
Mrs.   Laura  A.   Ball 

Pinkus 
Miss    Margaret    A. 

Sinclair 
Miss    Sophie    C.    Morris 
Joseph   Moorhead 
John   M.   Moorhead 
John   I.   Moorhead 
Samuel     Hutchinson 
Mrs.    Margaret 

McClean 
Mrs.   Mary    F.    Roberts 
Miss    Mary    S.    Roberts 
William  H.   Roberts 


Alonzo    E.    Austin,    Jr. 
Mrs.    Frances    L,. 

Taintor 
Mrs.   Caroline   M.    Smith 
Miss  Mary  A.   Smith 
Hopeton   D.   Smith 
Holmes    S.    Smith 
Joseph    S.    Bosworth 
Mrs.  Lizzie  C.  Sypher 
Mrs.    Frances    M.    H. 

Paton 

May  25,   1893. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Charles  Crook 

Auchincloss 
Miss    Ellen    M.    Jansen 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Mrs.    Annie    Carr 
Mrs.  Mary  Mahon 
Fred.   Townsend 


Dec,  1892. 

ADMITTED  ON   PROFESSION  James   S.    Cookey 
Miss   Mamie    Lyman  Miss  Mary  Mcllvain 


Peh.    19,   1893. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Miss  Temple  E.  Phillips 
Cornelius   Bournes 
Gustave  Berge 
James   Graham 


Oct.  5,  1893. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

Mrs.    Emma   Kunz 
Frederick  Zittel 
Mrs.    Katie  Zittel 
Miss  Alice  Looz 
Apr.  6,   1893.  Henry   C.    F.    Bruhl 

ADMITTED  ON   PROFESSION  James   M.   Wilson 
Miss  Sarah    Coffin  Miss  Annie   M.  Adams 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Daniel  E.  Kimball 
Mrs.    M.    A.   McComb 
James  Brandon 
Alexander   Frazer 
Mrs.    Esther   Frazer 
John    Michie 

Nov.  10,    1893. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

Miss    Lillie    F.    Rettig 
Miss   Fernand   DeSavis 
Miss    Minnie    Granger 

Dec.  7,  1893. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

John   Karl 

Miss   Emma  E.    Brahl 

Miss   Dora  M.   Salzmann 

William    Wilson 

Mrs.    Mary  A. 

Rosenhammer 
Miss   Amy   Lee    Duncan 
Amidon  Thompson 
Norman    Sloane    Bliss 
August    Stein 
Miss    Annie    Duttweiler 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Robert  Alex.  Bailey 
Frederick   J.    Looz 
George   Murray 
Miss  Agnes   Miller 
Edward    S.   Harkness 
Miss    Jane    Thompson 
Miss    Mary    Jane    Stuart 
Malcolm    Stuart 
Cornelia   Evelyn 

Paulmier 
Miss    Charlotte    Hamilton 
Miss  Jane   Gordon 
Miss  Manah  Irwin 
John    I.    Sinclair 
Mrs.    Mary   Jane    Sinclair 
Miss   Grace    M.    Sinclair 
Herbert    M.    Rogers 
Miss  Margaret    R. 

McKenzie 

Feh.  9,  1894. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 
Mrs.    Mary    Adelaide 

Campbell 
Miss   Effie   Grace   Cone 


Sfittb  ^uenue  ptesljptetian  Cf)urci) 


269 


Miss   Sarah   Palmer 

Barnes 
Miss  Ethel   Thompson 
Henry  John   Stelhi 
Edward    S.    Black 
Richard    Gries 
Miss    Minnie   W. 

Bofinger 
Miss    Pauline    Beissner 
Mrs.    Elizabeth    Moir 
Mrs.   Ann    M.    Blaker 
Miss    Maggie    Henry 
Miss   Alice   Andrews 


May   24,   i8q4.  William    Stahl 

ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  Mrs.    Anna   Winsted 
Miss    Gracie    Rampfen        Mrs.    Lizzie    Morris 


2>Iiss  Mary   Granzer 
George    Gardner 
James   S.    Alderdice 
Miss    Fannie    Griswold 

Ely 
Arthur    I.    Slade 
Miss  Cecelia  Bornie 
Max  Weil 
Mrs.   Elizabeth    Back 


Michael   Murphy 
Mrs.    Alva    Winchester 
Miss    Charlotte    Freely 
Miss  Alice  Blaker 
Miss   Clara  May 
Kussmand 
Archibald    H.    McNeil 
Miss   Annie   Ullmer 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  William    C.    McBride 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Charles  F.   Balch  Mrs.  Mary   J.    McBride 

Mrs.   Annie   Balch  Mrs.  Alice   McBride 

Miss    Ellen   Wood  Hall 

Archibald  M.    Stewart       Mrs.  Margaret  Mary 

Mrs.   Agnes   O.    Stewart  Munro 

Miss   Marguerite    Taylor  Mrs.  Lillie   McComb 

Miss  Ella  S.  Murdock  Garth 

Miss   Henrietta   D.  Miss  Isabella 

Elliott 
Horace   Ward 


Mrs.    Mary   C.    Colby 
Mies   Alice   Edwards 

Colby 
Thornwell  Mullally 
Mrs.   Carrie   Strall 
Chu  M.   Senng 
Dr.    I.   A.    Neal 
William  S.   Bennett 
Miss   Maggie   Bell 


Mrs.   Julia   B.   Bosworth  ^'^^^-   Henry  A.   Todd 
Matthew   C.   Fleming         Mrs.    Murian    Gilman 
Mrs.  Angie  W.  Fleming  ^odd 


Mrs.   Letitia   Orr 
Miss  Grace   A.    Orr 


Apr. 


1S94. 


Oct.   II,    1894. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Julius  F.  p.  VonEinden 
John    Einsel 


ADMITTED  ON   PROFESSION  Mrs.    Sclma    Einsel 


Abett   Ruinello 
Paul  Marx 
Mrs.  Lucy  Marx 
Christian  G.   Muller 
Mrs.   Barbara  Walter 
Miss    Mary    Zimpleman 
John    Prentice    Kellogg 
Miss  Lucy   Inman 
Miss    Edith    Beadleston 


Montgomery 
Frank  P.   Johnson 
George  Douglas  Young 
John    B.   Johnson 
William  C.   McGibbon 
Mrs.    Jennie    McGibbon 
Miss  Mary  Gray 
Miss  Adelia  B.  Althause 
Mrs.   Helen   L-   Lee 
Miss    Catherine   Campbell 
Frank  W.    Miller 
Mrs.   Berrie  I.   Miller 
Miss    Frank    Miller 

Harriette    Hayden 

Miller 


Miss 


William    Schuyler    Smith  Horace    D.    Sherrill 


Miss    Adelaide    Mahnken 
Miss  Margaret   E.    Rice 
Miss  Alma    E.    Wangler 
Miss   Lizzie    Shaurer 
Miss  Annie  Eliz  Tubman 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  /?^J,.    y      jggc 

Mrs.   Sherley  C.   Watkins  admitted  on  profession 

Mrs.  Jane   Henry  .Mrs.  Mary   F.   Gregory 

Mrs.  Lillie  L.   P.   Garth  Mrs.   Jessie   C.    McBride 


H.   Alexander    Smith 
L.    Emery  Katzenbach 
John  Andresen  Kimber 
Miss    Carlotte    Clark 
Simmons 


Mrs.    Lillie   E.    Sherrill 
Miss  Charlotte   F. 

Sherrill 
Miss   Sarah    Margaret 

Sherrill 
John    C.    Perry 
Jonathan  Acheson 


admitted  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Miss  Anna    Downing 

Mrs.    Mary    Riggs    Hatch  Dec.  6,  1894. 

Mrs.   Phebe   E-   Darragh    admitted  on  profession 
Charles   Raymond  Walter   Edward   Keys 

Miss    Christine    Lawson    Granville    W.     Garth  admitted  by  cektificaTS 

Miss  M.  Adele  Chivis       Mrs.   Grace  Hyer  Miss   Elizabeth   Hunter 


Miss  Anna  Eliza  Keen 
Edward    H.    McCray 
Miss  Annie  Rippel 
Chu  Don 
Miss  Jeanette  Frances 

Dowling 
Miss  Barbara  Eyre 
Noah  Swan  Davis 
Miss  Isabella   Clark 

Gibson 
Miss  Martha  McCook 


270 


Centennial  Celelitation  of  tfje 


Miss   Margaret   Anderson  admitted  by  cbrtificatb  Miss  Anna  B.   Lawrence 
Charles  Beatly  Hallock     Mrs.    Sarah   J.   Warner     James   C.  Mitchell 
Miss    Sophia 

.        Morgenthater  ^^^.^^  UzrXznA 

Miss  Juhe  Mane  Victor  ^^^^^^^   ^^^^^^   ^j.^^ 
Sherman   I.    Bacon 
Mrs.  Harriet  A.  Bacon 
Seth   Wellington   Johnson 
Miss   Louise   W.   Johnson 
Miss  Ella   F.   Johnson 
Mrs.    May   Etta  Young      admitted  by  certificate  Allen   F.   Edwards 

,     .,  „  Mrs.    Matilda  A.   Sloane  ^rs.    Sarah   McCahon 

April  II,   1895.  Miss   Margaret   Cobban 


Mrs.    Cornelia    Sloane 

Handy 
'Miss  Mamie  Coffin 

Inman 


W.   A.  Alexander 
Mrs.   Emily  Grace 

Bauman 
Mrs.   Augie   Kinsley 
James  H.   Edwards 
Mrs.    Lizzie    S.    Edwards 
Miss    Elizabeth    Edwards 
James   A.    Edwards 


admitted  on  profession  John  Downey 

Miss    Mary    Stimson  ^igg  Clara  Agnes 

Weston  Downey 

Mrs.    Catherine   Woerner  Mj-g.  Adelaide  E. 

Mrs.   Mary  H.   Bates  Hastings 
Miss  Alice  Gifford              Earnest  Frey 

Agnew  Mrs.  Margaret   Frey 


Feb.  6,  1896. 
admitted  on  profession 
Alfred    Emanuel 

Von  der  muhll 
Samuel   Thomas 
Miss   Eleanor   Nancy 

Thomas 


Hugh  Hamilton  Getty       Mrs.   Kate  Moore  Baker  Ewin   Cameron   Mclntyre 


Miss   Isabella    Munro 
Mrs.    Marion   McColl 


Miss  Alice  Ball  Pinkus  Miss  Grace  Baker 
William  James  Glassey  Miss  Emily  Baker 
Miss   Marie    Warner 

Work 
David  Jennings 

Culpepper 
Miss   Elizabeth    Kerr 
Miss  Magdelena 

Duttweiller 
Miss    Josephine    Mag- 

delene  Wessbecher  Mrs.    Catherine   E. 
Miss   Jennie    Louise  Cheeseman 

Flanagan  Miss  Eliza  Hamilton 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  ^"    •''    ^^^^'^ 
James  A.   Macauley 


Oct.  10,  1895. 

ADMITTED    ON    profession 

Mrs.    Mary    Hanley 


Joseph  Varnum  Mott 
Miss  Annie  Sass 
Miss   Eliza  Asher 
Alexander    Hamilton 

Dunn 
Mrs.   Eliza    Dunn 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
John    L.    Lawrence 
ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Mfsg  Katie  C.   Steele 
Mrs.  Nellie  Aitken  ^iss  Emma  E.  Davis 

Frederick    W.    Menzies 
Conrad   Bluhm 


Dec.  5,   1895. 
Mrs.   Katie  E.    Macauley  admitted  on  profession 


Apr.  9,  1896. 
admitted  on  profession 
Miss   Ruth    Mary    Sabin 
Miss    Eleanor    Marian 

Brown 
Miss    Bertha    E.     Shefer 
Miss    Elsie    M.    Shefer 
William    Sloane    Coffin 
Miss  Helen   G.  Moorhead 
John  H.    Inman,   Jr. 
Chu    Kee 

John    Leggett    Pultz 
Mrs.    Ada   S.    Elsworth 
admitted  by  certificate  Miss    Henrietta    Joenim 
Benjamin   F.    Wotkyns     Miss   Madeline   Wensted 
Dr.    William  D.  Miss    Maggie    Harvey 

Frenwith  Miss  Annie    Freese 

May  9,   1S9S.  M.  Clark  McEwen  Miss  Louisa   Steekler 

ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  Miss   Sarah   A.    Stratton  Miss  Emma  Kanke 
Miss    Elizabeth    Graham  Mrs.   Sarah   B.    LawrenceMiss  Ella   VanDuzer 
James   Thomas   Heeney     Miss  Louisa  F.  Miss   Louisa   Bonella 

Albert  Waldman  Lawrence  Miss  Mary  KnoflE 


J.    Sinclair    Armstrong 
Mrs.  Lizzie  H. 

Armstrong 
Abraham  J.   Brandt 
Mrs.    Brandt 
Duncan  McColl 

McGregor 
Mrs.   Grace   L.   Stevens 
James  Fahey 
Mrs.    Caroline  C. 

Vermeule 
E.  Lawrence  Hunt 
Mrs.   White 


Miss   Jennie   Jemison 

McBride 
Miss   Ruth  Kirker 

McBride 
Miss  Beatrice   Clark 

McBride 
Miss   Edith    Blanche 

McGibbon 
Mrs.    Matilda    Burnett 


Mtb  ^tsenue  Ptesfigterian  Cfjurcf) 


271 


Miss   Annie   Lockman         admitted  by  certificate  John   Newfold 

Miss  Elizabeth  Franklin   Leonard  Henry    Blumberger 

Duttweiler  Mrs.    Sarah    S.    Leonard 

Miss   Mamie   Schweizer  William    Barbour  admitted  by  certificatb 

■Mr-       T-ir        i\,r  c-  ^^'^^    -'^''ce    Rutherford 

Miss   Li  han   Mary  Simpson  ^rs.   Eliza  Jane   Buskey 

Flanagan  Mrs.    Margaret    Georgma  ^iss  Fannie   Ellen 
ADMITTED  BY  certificate  Simpson  ^  .   , 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  Manch  Miss  Alice  Walker  v     ,  r     "^,r. 

Tj    J     •  1     TJT     c  1      n  o-  •'^^"  Louis  Vietor 

Frederick    H.    Schaufler  Simpson  Mm-  r^ 

John  T.   Mills,   Jr.  John   Anderson    Simpson  nrSn^Tw  n     , 

William   B.    Brokaw  Miss  Marie  Agnes   SpearMr's     S.lr  tT  n     I 

Mrs.    Mary  A.   Brokaw  Miss   Florence    Spear         HeJr     R    Dame" 

William   Brokaw  Thomas  H.  Allison  -n.^-       ^    '  ,.  ^"It'^, 

Miss   Florence   L.  William   Leslie  ^^         c  ^''*^^ 

Brokaw  ^  ?^°"'Z         t,f   ?''' 

r„„,„„  n    R      1,       -J  Oct.  8,  1896.  Mrs.    Mary   W.    Shearer 

Oeorge  D.  Brechenndge  '       ^  t.^-  „    i>,  ,^ 

Mrs.   Laura    Stechler         n""*"""  °''  profession  Miss   Mary   \oung 
n/r^o    HT  *    c     ^.         David  Morrison  Coffin  Shearer 

Mrs.    Margaret    Scott  ^.       -p,-,.,     „ 

Mrs.    Margaret    Johnson    admitted  by  certificatb  ^"zabeth   E. 

Mrs.    Sarah  L.  Shearer 

Dec,   1S94.  Heuvelman  ^iss  Edith  L.    Shearer 

ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  John  O.   Mott  Leander  H.   Shearer 

Henry  Leehr  Mrs.  Mary   E.    Corbit       ^^'^^  Annie  Lawson 

Miss  J.    Moyene  James   E.   Mitchell 

McSorley  ^°'"-  5,   1S96.  Mrs.    Mary    R.    Wright 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE    ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION  Miss    Elizabeth   J. 
Mrs.   Sarah  Proudfit  Walter   Buxton  Wright 

Miss  Jessie  Lambe 
June,   1S95.  Henry    Rosch  •^'^»-  7.   1897. 

ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  Frank   Morterville  admitted  on  profession 

Miss  Amelia   M.    Bender  Holmes  William    C.    Courtenay 

Miss    Ida   Smith  Miss  Josephine  Arenza 

ADMITTED  BY  certificate  m;«=  ri,,,  r\,  u 
Oet.,    1895.  Miss   Mary  Mahon  ^^'''  ^'''^   ^^^^°'' 

admitted  on  profession  Alexander  Manson  Feb.    11,    1897. 

Herman  Leehr  admitted  on  profession 

William   Fritz  -C*^-   10,    1896.  Mrs.   Lillian   Clarke 

Frederick  Barckart,  Jr.      admitted  on  profession  Mrs.   Agnes  K.    Spear 
Miss   Lela   Dill   HarknessAlfred   W.    Spear 
Dec,   1895.  Miss  Phebe  Lord  Theodore   Meineche 

UrTZTrZ  r°'^""'"'' nu     ,   ^^'^^ormick  Mrs.    Louisa    Meineche 

Mrs.  Martha  Rogers  Charles    Clifford'   Sloane  Mrs.    Gertrude 

Albert  Kuhn  Henry   Wilkes    Sherrill  Weishardt 

Feb.,   1S96.  ^^"^   ^°"S  John   Lohman 

admitted  on  profession  ^I'"  ^eung  jyjiss  Minnie  Miller 

Miss  Julia  Kisnaul  *-^"  ^°"S  Miss   Katie    Renker 

Miss    Lillian    Flanagan      ^o^^ay  Wing   Shearer     Miss   Clara   Asher       ' 
Miss  Mamie   Shweiz'er       Victor    Edwin    Palmer       Thomas  Aiken 
Miss    Lizzie    Duttweiler    ^^"""^    ^^"'"^    Hall  admitted  by  certificaTB 

admitted  by  certificats         '  J"''^"^  Armour         Miss    Elizabeth    Moore 
Alexander    Roy  .        Ferguson  Miss  Ellen   Irwin 

Mrs.    Roy  Hjalmar    Irving    PetersonPhilip   W.   Fruauf 

Mrs.   Kate  Roy  ^"^^^^^    W.    A.    Reichel     Mrs.     Estella    Gertrude 

Miss    Lillie   Mary    Rosa  Fruauf 

May  28,    1896.  Mrs.   Henrietta  Sturm       Miss  Annie  Letham 

admitted  on  profession  Mrs.    Carrie    Lendermer  Mrs.    Florence  J     Blair 
Miss  Gertrude  J.  Snook      Mrs.    Pauline   Bauman      Miss  Mary  Ilop  Dwl^ht 


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Centennial  Celebration  of  t|)e 


Apr.  8,  1897. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFfiSSIOW 

Mrs.    Nannie    Barclay 

Seer 
Miss  May   Emery 
Miss    Ethel    Musier 

Taintor 
Graham    Brush 
Thomas   Markoe 

Robertson 
Martin    W.   Kellogg 
Edward  W.   Ropes 
Chu   Sheol   Jung 
Lem    Doo 
Harry  Grimm 
Peter    Anderson 


Mrs.   Alice    Trimble 
Miss   Eva    Bontems 


Mar.  II,    1S97.  Nov.  11,   1897.  Jan.  6,  i8g8. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION    ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION     ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATS 

Miss  Mary  H.   Holmes     George    Richard   Kafe       Jo^"^   '^-    Trimble 
Miss    Clara   Wiley  Frederick  Becher 

Mrs.    Rose    Becher 

Louis    Schoenewolf 

Mrs.   Annie    Buchner 

Otto    Golde 

Oscar   Loos 

Miss  Helen  M.  N. 
Wilson 

Miss  Louisa   Koehler 

Mrs.    Mary    Brosang 

Alexander    Sievewright 

Christopher   Rosch 


Feb.   10,    1898. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

Miss    Virginia     Campbell 

Randall 
Walter  Lovett   Randall 
Edward    Stuart    Peck 
Finley  I.   B.   Weller 
Miss    Marie    Henrietta 

Winkhaus 
Ogden    Dutcher 


Dec.  9,  1897. 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  ^hu     Shea 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

M.  J.    Finley   Weller 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION  ^^l,    „         ^.     i  d    • 

„,      ,        „        „  Thomas  Chalmers  Raine 

Charles    Kussell  t  1       t>t-     ,  t 

,      ,  .     ,  John   Nicolson,  Jr. 

Auchincloss  wt-u-  n.      c.      u   n 

William    T.    Stuchell 


William  J.  Helfs 
Mrs.    Maggie    Darling 

Helfs 
George    Alexander 

McDonald 
Mrs.  James  T.  BoUes 


Miss   Elizabeth 

Auchincloss 


Feb.  24,    1898. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Miss    Eva   Walcott   Peck  Miss  Annetta   Desibis 
Miss  Abba  C.   Blaffer        Charles  Munz 


June  3,    1897. 


Miss    Graciebel    Bolles 
James    C.    Auchincloss 
Gordon    Auchincloss 
Mrs.   Theresa  Karl 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION  j^j^g     jj^     jj^^j 

Miss    Anna   Mclntyre        ^.^^  j,^^;^  kittle 

Mrs.    Catherine    Tobey      y^.^^  ^^^^.^    Sohmers 

Mrs.    Elizabeth    Williams  j^.jj^^  Charlotte   Catherine  Weishardt 

Seckler  ^rs.    Lizzie    Voigt 

Miss  Florence   White        ^^"""y   Somers 

Mrs.  Elizabeth    Redling     admitted  by  certificate 

Mrs.  Ottellia    Weishardt  George   E.   Stedman 


Joseph    Borstemps 

Apr.  7,  1898. 
admitted  on  profession 
James  McCosh   Magie 
Anton    Henry    Schaeffer 
Miss   Elizabeth 


Tobey 
Orville   Hunt   Tobey 
Miss    Stephen    Karl 
Miss   Annie   Buchner 
Miss  Etoile  Elliot 
Miss  Mary  E.  Bauer 
Miss   Bertha   Dich 
Miss  Ida  Knauth 


Mrs.   Jessie   Starke 
Mrs.    Eliza    Espenheim 
Mrs.  Annie  Erickson 
Mrs.   Sophia   Rohn 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  j^j^g_  j^^^y  gj^j^j^^ 

Dr.    Frank    Matthews        ^jj^^  ^^^^  -gj^j^j^^ 

Mrs.   Sarah  H.   Polhemus,,        r>     t         c  1,    ■** 
,  Mrs.    Barbara   Schmitt 

Miss    Cornelia   Polhemus 

Miss   Sarah  Polhemus 


Mrs.    Stedman 

May  5,  1898. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

John    O'Brien 
Lawrence  Bonadeo 
Morris   Adam    Stuttzbach 
Mrs.    Elizabeth 
Stuttzbach 


Mrs.    Caroline    Kopka 
Mrs.   Kate   Bird 

Oct.  7,   1897.  Miss  Alice  Mary  Heyd     M"-   ^"nie    Schaeffer 

ADMITTED  ON   PROFESSION  Mrs.    Christina    Elizabeth^''^^^^^^   Fisher 
Mrs.    Josephine    Kroff  Drautz  '^^'"^-    Bertha  Peborsky 

James    Alexander    Frame.wiHiam  Aury  Blauvelt     ^^^-   ^'^^^    Smith 
Jr.  Mrs.   Mary  Smith 

Miss    Ethel    May   Kimber  admitted  by  CERTIFICATE  Mrs.   Annie    Smith 
ADMITTED  by  certificate  Mrs.    M.   A.   Blair  Miss   Annie   C.    Barth 

Henry   E.    Prentice  Miss   Johanna    Ross  Peter  Campbell 

John   C.    Ranscher  Miss  Agnes   Frazer  George    Wagner 


fitth  atjenue  Pte^ftgtetian  Cfjurtfi         273 


Mrs.    Ellen  E.    Bownes     Charles   Oelschlager  May  2$,   i8gg. 

Miss  Annie   Wildey  George  Reincke  admitted  on   professiok 

Mrs.    Conway  Miss  Hannah  M.  Grimm  Russell    Stuart    Tucker 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  GuStaV     Loos  ^^^     ^      ^^^^ 

Thomas  Conway  Ir^'^J^T     -R  admitted  'on  professiok 

Miss    bophie    Brower  p  r*    T> 

May  26,    189S.  Miss    Margaret    Loveday     ^°''^^„!" 

ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  Philip  Newbold  btoltzenberg 

Miss    Marjorie   Tallman    Miss   Mary    Steieshoffer  admitted  by  certificate 

Sinclair  Miss   Louise    Bazniski  ^^^^-   Barbara  Chase 

Joseph   Rowland  Miss  Annie   Bazniski  jjg^    ^    jg^^ 

P    K      .^"i^n"''°%.  /'^'^^    ^"P*^""    ^"'^  ADMITTED  'on'  PROFESSION 

Robert    Wilham    Stewart  Miss  Julie   Hein  Miss    Victoria    Fivey 

Cortlandt    Dixon    Barnes  n.    ,.       -m-       -^      o-  ^     . 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  ^"'*^''   Mauntz    Sjobeek 
ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  j^j^^  ^jj^^   (-.     g^jj  Mrs.    Augusta    Josephine 

Mrs.   Carrie    S     Leighton  ^^^^  ^-  ^^^^  gjobeek 

f/''  ^^""Tr^A   ^^T  Miss   Mary   L   Mott  ^rs.    Katie    Metzel 

Mrs.A  M.Odeneal  j^.^^  ^^  ^^^^^  Mrs.    Wilhelmina   Louisa 

^     ■•J^/7/^°'''l  Miss   Clar^  A.    Warner  Traub 

David  L  McComb  ^^.^^  ^_  lantha  Mrs.    Ellen  Barrie 

Oct.  6,  1898.  Slaughter  Mrs.   Margaret   Neumiller 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION  f^'""^'     Neubold 

Miss  Adele  Forbes  Feb.  9,  1S99.  Miss   Frieda   Ottman 

Francis   Bonner   Forbes      admitted  on  profession  ^"^^''^^  Wessbeeker 
Mrs.    Sophie    Somers  Henry    H.    Mott  Andrew  Arganza 

Frank   Kaiser  /?^j,    g^  jpoo_ 

Miss  Elsie  Lipp  Mar.  9,  1899.  admitted  on  profession 

Miss  Minnie  Mattera         admitted  on  profession  Miss   Grace   Stanley 
Miss  Louise   Baiste  William    Otto    Munz  Brownell 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  M^S-    Frances    E.  William    Fletcher    Irwin 

Robert    Dixon  Hiccenbothen  Miss  Annie   Petrolina 

Mrs.   Jessie   Dixon  ^^'^^-  Henrietta  Olschlager  Pavlis 

Miss  Ethel   Scott   Dixon  Mrs.   Annie   Baker  Miss  Annie   Petrolina 

Mrs.   Adelphena  Wolf  Paukner 

'■     °'    ^  9  •  ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Miss    Mary    Kralish 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION  ,,  a         •        t  -r.  A1K;„„„    -M™*.    1 

T,,.        ^,          ,,  „   ,  ,     Mrs.    Annie    Jane    Parry  Albinus   Wetzel 
Miss    Clara   Mary  Fulda,,        ,.,         „  tij-„    t~,  „., 
,     ,         „,     , ,                      Mrs.  Mary  Gray  Miss   Florence    Gilmore 
Arthur    Blackburn                ,,,         -,                »      -r-                          tvt      u     j 
,,..„.         ^r  ,                           Mrs.    Joanna   A.    E.                         Newbo.d 
William    Holmes                               \^               ,  ■»,•       ,,•      •     t^   „ 
„,      ,       ,,      J     ,                             Hengstenberg  Miss  Minnie  Keller 
Charles    Murdock                 ,,         .             „  -.r        ,,.      .„ 
J-.     .  ,    „     ,                           Mrs.   Agnes   Ramppan  Mrs.   Minnie   Fox 

am  Frederick  Albes  Miss  Rose  Schoenwolff 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Joseph   Schoenwolff 

J.   Henry  M.   Pryde  ^p^_  ^^  ^g^^^  Philip  Kuskunna 

Dec.  8,  1898.  ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  William   F.    Goldine 

ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  Miss   Agncs    Hughes  Miss   Olga  Miller     • 

Miss    Matilda    Harriet      ^^'^s    Eliza   Anderson  p^^ 

Brau  Miss    Florence    Raymond    .„,„„..,„    '     ' 

■"'"*"  ,,.  Ti    .,-     r-       .,  ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Eugene    Hohl                     "  Miss    Ruth    Gunther  Miss   Caroline  Alexander 

Samuel   Johnston                             Winant  McCook 

William  E.  Wernan  Mrs.    Lena    Durath  Miss   Mary    Knecht 

James   Voigt  Miss  Lena  Durath  Tobey 

Joseph  McDermott  Miss  Katie   Dicke  admitted  by  certificate 

Miss   Loretta   Louise  admitted  by  certificate  Miss  Catherine   Priest 

Aberle  Albert  I.   Edwards  Crane 


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Henry    Herschel    Adams  George  Ambridge  Taylor 
Mrs.    Helen    Redington     Mrs.    Ellen   E. 

Adams  Pickenback 

Elzey  E.  Meacham  admitted  by  cerTificaTB 

Mrs.    Lulu   G.    Meacham  j^i^^   Vimont   Lyle 
Malcolm   L.   Meacham 

May  24,  1900. 
Mar.  8,  1900.  admitted  on  profession 

ADMITTED  ON   PROFESSION  Miss    Marian    Edwards 
Miss  Katie  Knox  ^igg  Maria  W.  G.   Ely 

Miss   Rosie   Knox  Vravk   Luwood  Lealy 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Montgomery    DeF. 


Frank  Cassera 

Apr.  5,  ipoo. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Miss  Janet   Drummond 

Morrison 
Frederick  Clark  Inman 
Miss  Edna  Florence 

Brown 
Miss    Ellen    Rowena 

Meyer 
Chu   Homm 
Chu   Sam 
Chu   Fung 
Chu   Gain 
Chu  Chee 
Chu  Yen 
Chu  Nion 
Henry  Walter 
Miss   Gertrude  Weishardt  admitted  on  profession 
ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Clifford    Vail    Brokaw 
Miss   Anna   A.    Ponder     Donald    Bunker    Sinclair 
Mrs.    Sarah  Ann  HalstedJoye  Joseph 


LaRoche 
Charles    Slade    Inman 
Miss  Florence   Belles 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Mrs.    Jmogene    H.    Lyle 
Mrs.  Emma  Grace   Sealy 
Eli   Baldwin 
Mrs.   Abba  Louisa 

Baldwin 
Mrs.   Margaret   P. 

Mathes 
Harry  A.   Smith 


June  17,  1900. 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

James   Henry    Byron 
Mrs.  Jane   Byron 

Oct.  II,   igoo. 


Elliott    Danforth 
Miss  Laura  Goertz 
John   Stewart 
Miss  Dorothea  Allison 

Apr.  8,   1899. 


Mrs.   Mary  Cross 
Mrs.   Sarah  Minall 
Mrs.   Sophie  Huggins 
Miss  Anna  Foester 
Miss  Anna  Stephan 
Mrs.  Barbora  W.  Kolb 


ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  jjisg  Frieda  Voyt 


Miss   Margaret   Barrie 
Mrs.  Tillie  Proper 
John   Apgar 
Mrs.    Helen    Margaret 
Apgar 


Miss   Antonia   Link 
August  Metzler 
John   Conrad    Kloss 
Walter  Hahne 
Emil  Muller 
ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Vasclav   H.   C.  Ziegler         ai'MITTEd  by  certificate 

J      A     ir  Arthur  King  Wood 

Mrs.  Amanda  A.  Varroy  ^.^^^^^    ^^^^ 

May  9,  1900.  Mrs.  Rebekah  B.  Purves 

admitted  on  profession  Miss  Eleanor  K.    Purves 
Mrs.    Sophie    E.    Zeller     Miss  Rebekah   S.    Purves 
Miss  Bertha  Annie  HavaMrs.  Mary  Campbell 
Miss    Louise    Barzmaier  House 

Miss  May  Goetz  Miss  Elizabeth  House 


Otto  G.   Smith 

Mrs.  Lettie  H.   Smith 

Robert  A.   Lindner 

Nov.  9,  1900. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

Mrs.    Catherine    Iriohn 
Arthur   Ludwig  Esche 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
John  M.   Palm 
Mrs.    Kelley  Johnson 

Dec.  6,  1900. 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
Philip   W.   Henry 
Mrs.  Julia   E.   Matthews 
James   Marshall    Stuart 
Mrs.   Jessie   Coe   Stuart 
Mrs.  Faith  M.  Eckhout 
George  Albert 

Von   der   Muhll 
Mandeville    Mullaly 
Mrs.   Jermian    Stoddard 

Duncan 
Dr.   Geo.   Houston  Bell 
Gustavus  A.   Mooney 
Geo.  E.   Dunscomb 

Jan.  10,  1901. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSIOW 

Miss  Annie   Shilhan 
Miss   Annie   H.   Kouba 
Miss  Bertha  Harabes 
Miss  Mary  Valda 
Joseph   James    Schaffer 
William  White 
George  Washington 

Bowne 
Charles  DeSavis 

Feb.  7,  1901. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Mrs.  Helen  M.  Delong 
Miss   Emma  Yates 
J.   Marshall   Stuart,   Jr. 
Lewis  W.   Hornblower 
Geo.   S.  Hornblov/er 
Miss  Mildred  M.  Purves 
Mrs.   Margaret  Stohlman 
Miss   Minnie    Smith 
Miss    Minnie    Johnston 
Miss  Christien 

DeHennings 
George   Siederman 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 
David   Stewart 
A.  Gordon  Murray 


JFiftf)  auenue  ptesfiptetian  Cftutcf)         275 


Mrs.  Anna  Still  admitted  by  certificatb   admitted  by  certificats 

J.    A.   Haughwout  Miss   Luslla    Murkland       Miss    Catherine    Amard 

Henry  R.   Sutphen  Mrs.  Helena  Dyke  Woobel 

Miss  Annette   K.    Hall  Everitt 

,.  Feb.  6,   1902. 

Mar.   7,    igoi.  Ort      m      mnr 

^"-  ^°'  ^y°'-  admitted  on  profession 
ADMITTED  ON  profession  ^^^itted  ON  PROFESSION  Miss  Janetta  Alexander 
Wilham  Leehr                       Euthymois  Lambrides 

William   Graham  Miss  Jane  Radcliff  admitted  by  certificats 

Miss  Rose  Marie  Johnson  Kirkman  ■'°'^°  ^-   ^"^^rs 

^"^'^^''  Mrs.   Lillian  W.   Charles 
Apr.  II,  igoi.            James  Lamoreaux 

ADMITTED  ON   PROFESSION  Gladwyn  Mar.  6,  igo2. 

Miss   Harriet    Harris  Miss   Frances   Elizabeth  admitted  on   profession 

Sabin  Bernard  Thomas  J.   Macdonald 

Miss  Johanna  Mattheu  admitted  by  certificate  William   Walz 

Frederick  Ball  Pinkus  j^^^s  Loulie  Redus  ^^^^^'^^   Lenhert 

Walter  DeVereaux  Kirkman  Miss    Augusta    Fuhrman 

P>"k"s  janies  M.  Thomas 

Miss  Josephine   Hall  pi^ra  Thomas  ^^''^  '"'  '^°'- 

Charles  Vok  William  Thomas  *°**""°  °''  '''°'="'°'' 

admitted  by  certificaTB  Miss  JNIary  Barnett  Shaw>""   c^°       '^ 

Charles  E.   Moles  Henry  W    Tessuo  ^"^ 

Mrs.  Helen  Dodge  Mary  H.  Jessup  f/^,7   ^V'"'"  ^'S 

Moles  Miss  Catherine  Lillian  Matthew   Gnswold   Ely 

Miss  Laura  Cox  Shearer  Horace   Gnsv.old    Ely 

Mrs.  Anna  E.   Gillies  Lorenzo   Todd   Getty 

Miss  Phinnie  Brunner  No~^'-  7.  mi-  Miss  Emma  Forbes 

Samuel   Derichson  admitted  on  profession  M'ss  Evelyn  Anastaisia 

Susan  T.  Derichson  Miss  TiUie  Deorn  Hess 

Miss  Hattie  P.  DerichsonFred  Rehberg  Augustus  John  Mullingcr 

Miss  Sue  Derichson  Thomas  McMullen  Miss    Elizabeth    Williams 

Miss  May  Derichson  „.      ,    ..  ,  ■^^'^'    ^^"^    Schultingor 

^^<=-  5.  -fpo-f-  Arthur   Loveday 
May  13.   1901.             admitted  on  profession  Frederick  Mattem 

admitted  on   profession  Siegfried    Schultz  tt,,„,   i)u-;n:, 

Wm.  L.  McAlhster  M,ss  Anna  Wurth  ju,,   j^amie   Leyh 

William   A.    Matthews        John  Leyh  j^^^^  ^jj 

Maud    Craig    Matthews     Miss  Martha  Davis  .„,.,.,^„„     \,„  ^  .      ^, 

T    ,        ^^  ,,.  admitted  by  CERTIFICATB 

May  30.  1901.  J°^"  ^^"'■y  Wassman       ^rs.  Florence  D. 

admitted  on  profession  ^'"    J^j!^""^   Elizabeth  Stevenson 

Miss  Anna   Dudley  Hart  Witte  j^j^^  Alexandra    Bjering 

Miss   Maud   Stanbridge      admitted  by  certificate  Mrs.  Mabel  Potter 

May  Mrs.   Frances  W.  Thompson 

Mrs.  Mary  Louisa  Goller  Downes  ^j^g^  ggrtha   fhayer 

Miss  Anna  Roth  Frederick  A.  Downes  m^^j. 

Miss  Marian  Kraft  J°*^P''  ^^'^""^  Mrs.  Maria  Graham    . 

Miss  Rosa  Carolyn  Barbara  Bejeck  Patterson 

Bradish  Jan.  g,  igo2.  Miss  Lavinia  B. 

Mrs.    Haldion    Smith  admitted  on  profession  Patterson 

Herman  Charles  Llewelyn  D.   Pritchard      Vasclav   H.    C.    Ziejier 

Fuhrman  Miss   Caroline   Leehr         Mrs.  Florence  Monteith 

Mrs.  Annie  A.  Burchart  Miss    Alice   G.    Hutler       Mrs.  Sarah   McBurney 

Miss  Lena  L.  Leehr  Mrs.  Anna  Lommer  Miss  Ella  Marie 

Miss  Etta  A.  Handte         Mrs.   Emma  W.  Maybeck  Whittenblecker 

Miss  Sophie  M.  Miss  Josephine   SchremerMiss  Louise    Elizabeth 

Habermann  Miss  Pauline   Braxmaier  Neuheisel 


276 


Centennial  Celebration  of  tlje 


May  29,  igo2.  Nov.  6,  igo2. 

ADMITTED    ON     PEOFfiSSION    ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

Arthur   A.    Anderson  Mrs.    Louise   Westing 

Mrs.   Sarah  Joseph  George  Rohn 

ADMITTED  BY  cERTiriCATS  ^iss  Martha   Maria 
James   Gilleland  ^^ulda 

James  R.  Magoffin  admitted  by  certificats 

Mrs.   Maria   S.   Wells 
Oct.  16,  1902.  Mrs.   Ida   S.  Wells 

admitted  on  profession  Mrs.  Mary  Ann  Tait 
Harold   Coe  Stuart  Miss  Mary   Jane    Tait 

Mrs.  Apolonia  Debusck     Mrs.   Grace  W.  Berry 


Miss  Clara  Weisman 
John  Battger 
William  John  Miller 
Christian  N.  Grimm 
Mrs.  Celestea  Snow 
George  Hutter 
Miss   Emily  Augusta 

Espenhain 
Frederick   Chas.   Loersch 
William  Hamburg  Manek  admitted  by  certiFicatiS 
Adolph  Dorn  David  Barclay  Kirby 

Henry  Reichman  Mrs.   Emily   Rees   Kirby 

Mrs.   Nellie   Elizabeth       Albert  Remick 


Dec.  II,  1902. 
admitted  on   profession 
Edward  Karl 
Miss  Katie  Lipp 
Miss  Rosa  Jude 
Clarence  Schmelzel 
Miss  Annie  Firbell 
Miss    Isabel    Alexander 


Mrs. 
Mrs, 
Mrs, 


Mrs.  Carrie  A.  Remick 
Miss   Elizabeth   McCand- 

less   Crawford 
Miss  Olga  Lund 
Adam  McDowell 

Matheson 
A.   Scott  Matheson 
Mrs.  Sarah  P.  Matheson 
*"!'""°  ^^„^f  "''''"^*  Joseph  Roy   Robbins 

Miss  Marian   Halleday 
Miss    Christina   McEwen 
Paul  McElroy 
Charles  C.   Nucheuer 


Lynch 

Monica  Siewert 
Anna  Hubert 
Lizzie  A. 
Livingstone 
Miss    Louise    Jeannette 
Hubbell 


Henry  W.  Bolles 
Walter  P.  Bolles 
David  B.   Ivison 
Mrs.   Emeline  M.    Ivison 
Miss   Sarah  B.   Ivison 
Miss  Rebecca    Brown 

Bull 
Mrs.  Rebecca  Jane 

Layton 
Samuel  Wylie 
Mrs.   Annie  Wylie 
Miss  Margaret  Wylie 
James  Mennie 
Mrs.   Joanna  Mennie 
Mrs.   Eliza  Amelia  Ives 
Robert  Coburn 
Mrs.   Letetia  Coburn 
David  Scott 

Oct.  17,   1902. 


Mrs.  Margaret  Reed 

Nucheuer 
Edv/ard  D.  Terbell 
Mrs.    Elyean   Terbell 

Dec.  17,  1902. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 
Mrs.  Leonora  Van 

Schenck  Tomey 

Jan.  8,  1903. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Edward  Charles  Robert 

Rohr 
George  Apgar 
Albert   Arthur  Keer 


ADMITTED  ON   PROFESSION  George  Alexander 
Burton  Judson  Berry  Graham 


Frank  John  Lehnert 
William    Clark 
Miss   Laura   Kussmaul 
Miss  Maria   Cogswell 

Bliss 
Miss  Alice  Vivienne 

Farrington 
Emil  P.  Gebhard 
George   Taylor,   Jr. 
John  Taylor,  Jr. 
Antoinette  Taylor 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIPICAT* 
Charles  Walter  Artz 
Daniel   Morgan   Dunham 
Miss   Nannie  Wells 

Goodman 
Miss  Ellen  T.  Gould 

Feb.  5.  1903. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Miss  Mamie  Walters 
Jliss    Christina   Stolliman 
Miss  Ida  Schultze 
Percival   Jane   Mcintosh 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATS 

Hugh  Clare  Kendell 

Hester 
Harvey  P.  Miller 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  Miller 
Harvey   Haydock   Miller 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  S. 

McCulloh 
James  Nicolson 
?'.Irs.  Mary  G.  Nicolson 
Miss  Jane  Marlin 
Miss    Margaret    Russell 
James  Thompson 
Francis  I.  Pursell 
Mrs.  Bernice  Pursell 
Miss   Edith  Norman 

White 
Mrs.  Agnes  McMullen 
Mrs.  Ethel  Florida 

Mcintosh 

Mar.  5,  1903. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

Miss  Jennie  Burchart 
Miss  Susan  M.   Flanagan 
Miss  Carrie  T.  Lynch 

Apr.  12,   1903. 
Reginald   LaGrange 

Auchincloss 
Chu  Poo  Wah 
Chu  Sam  Toy 


JFiftf)  atjenue  Pre^bpterian  Ci)nrctJ 


277 


Frank  Stuart  Hunt 
Philip   Bevan   LaRoche 
Henry    Herbert    Jessup 
Theodore   Carrington 

Jessup 
Miss  Helen  Gertrude 

Kernaghan 
Miss  Olive  Maude 

Stafford 
Frederick   Winkhaus 
Miss  Annie    Svoboda 
Mrs.    Lillie   Anderson 
Miss  Annie  Echstem 
Miss  Mary  Kessler 
Hector  Joseph  Martin 
Mrs.    Gertrude    Metzler 
Mrs.  Fannie  Reichart 
Mrs.  Nellie  Brown 
Leo  Alfonse  Rice 
Andrew  Winstedt 
George  Emil  Winstedt 


Ethel  E.  Schilling 
Leonard  Leidemer 
Hattie    Neas 
Pauline   Schuhriemen 
Joseph  Schuhriemen 
Thomas  Westing 
Mrs.   Mary  Boycc 
William  Kaufman 
Thomas  Chase 
Henry  Wolleman 

ADIIITTED  BY  CERTIFICATB 
George  Elliott   Fleming 
Henry  Alfred   Hav/orth 
Mrs.   Sarah  Hunter 
Haworth 
Mary  L.  Miller 
Mary   Munroe 


Mrs, 
Mrs, 
Mrs, 
Frederick  A.   Wallis 


George  Cunningham 
Mrs.   Catherine   Lehnert 
Miss  Josephine   Bejeck 
Miss -Agnes   M.   Dobias 
Miss  Antionette  Nohynek 
Bernard  Pavlis 
Miss   Eva  L,.    Schaef 
Miss  Emma  Zimffer 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTlFICArg 

Charles  Rose 
Thomas  Bryce 
Agnes  Bryce 

Dec.   10,  1903. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSIOK 

Harry  F.  Hartjen 
John  Jones 
Albert  L.   McKean 


Mary  D.  Townsendjiiss   Caroline  Hanisch 


Miss   Minnie    Klaeman 
Charles  Klingel 
Oct.  8,  1903.  j^^g_    Helen   M.    Klingel 

ADMITTED  BY  CE8TIFICATB    AOM^TED    ON    PROFESSION  ^^^^^^    g^j^j^ 
Dwight   H.    Day  Edward   DoDias 

Miss  Ida  T.  Hawkins        ^^''°^   ^^''^ 
E.   Hicks  Herrick  F'"^"^    Shaffer 

Mrs.  Adelaide  L  HerrickG^stave  Bergenholz 
Mrs.    Starrich    Cochrane  ^enry  Ziska 

jjyjjj  Leonard  Raumeo 

Charles  T.  Lark  Stephanie   Bartunek 

Miss    Glida   Day   Rogers  Louise   Bejeck 
Heinrich  Ernest  Stephanie   Vojech 

Schniewind  Je""'^   Engel 

Mrs.   Helen   G.  J^^^^^  Nohynek 


Schniewind 


Miss  Prudence  H.  WelchGeorge  Bulwinkle 
William  H.  Woodin 
Mrs.   Annie   Jessup 

Woodin 
Albert  N.    Stevenson 

May  z8,  1903. 


Miss  Mary  Watt 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

William   Edgar   Caldwell 
Miss  Martha   I.    Cook 
Charles  F.   Darlington 
Mrs.    Lelitia   Craig 

Darlington 
Andrew  L.  Gardiner 
Miss  Dorothea  E.   Lewis 
Miss  Anna  Louise 

Lindguist 
Miss  M.   Cary 

MacConnell 
Miss    Christina   MacLeod 
Mrs.   Mary   Maswell 
Mrs.   Caroline  O'Neill 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  ^^j^^^    j_    p^^^^ 


Amelia  Fahrback 


Mrs.    Wilhelmina    Ebner 

Bulwinkle 
Nellie  Klementina  Wurth 


Mrs.   Sarah  H.   Polhemus 
Sarah  H.   Polhemus 


ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSIOH  Newell  H.   Stewart 


Eleanor   Butler 

Alexander 
Alexander  Macauley 

Christie 
Mrs.  Anna  Clemme 
Adele  Cragin 
Isabelle  D.  Morrison 
Charles  Fred  Pabst 
Irene  M.  Brenton 
Gertrude  E.   Dunn 


Mrs.  Mary  A.    Stewart 
Nov.  5,  1903. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

Wallace   Campbell 
Miss   Carrie  Mehnken 
Chu  Foon  Ki 
John   McRae  Manck 
George  Leicht 
George   Henry   Rose 


Mrs.  Anna  M.  HerrmannMiss  Louise  Benson 
Jennie  McElroy  Miss  Harriet  F. 

Florence  I.   Rice  Alexander 


Mrs.   Donna  Irvine 

Trull 

Miss  Rosa  A.  Tweed 
Kiliaen    VanRensselaer 
Miss  Rachel  B. 

Worrall 
John  Gilliland 
Miss    Lizzie    McMullen 

Gilliland 
Miss   Annie    Norris 
Mrs.    Mary    Sussman 

Jan.  7,   1904. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

John  Henry  Lewis 
Knapp    Sewell 


278  Centennial  Celebration  oC  tl)e 


Frederick  Gottelieb  Josephine   Schaffer  admitted  by  certificau 

Handte  John  H.  Maybach  Mrs.   Elizabeth  Janet 

Miss  Laura  Brown  Myrtle  White  Elmore 

Edward  Aims  Mrs.  Alice  Tully  Elizabeth  Mortimer 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATS    ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICAT8  Elmore 

Mrs.   Elizabeth  Allen         Mrs.  Magdalene  W.  Harry  H.  Harkey 

Palm  Froschl 

Miss    Leila   Ada  Mrs.  Wilhelmina  Oct.   13,   1904. 

Chapman  McHardy  admitted  on  profession 

Mrs.   Isabel  Betz  Mrs.   Johanna   Beyer 

Feb.  14,  jgo4.  Florence  Shepard  Rogers 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION  ^p^,    j^    j^^^  Jgan   Whiting 

Miss  Emma  Dinger  admitted  on  profession  Mary  Louise  Woodin 

Miss    Susan    Seldon  chu  Dot  Douglas  Campbell 

Drisdale  qj^u  John  May  Charles  Julius   Froener 

Miss   Fanny    Schilz  q^u  Mow  Margaret  Froener 

Miss  Lizzie   Schilz  Riujiro  Ishimuna  Elizabeth  Homburger 

Miss  Mary  Wirtz  Ruf^g  Leighton  Anna  Keen  Malony 

Feb     11    lani  MacDuffie 

rea.    11.    i^iuf.  .  t,-        „    ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATS 

ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  Jo^"   Livingstonc   Bissell  j-jj^a^eth  Barber 
Herbert   L   Hinley  Emma  Jeannette  Bissell     , 

Adelbert  Wm.  John  "'^"^  -^^""^ 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATS  CI      Ir 

Jesiah    Williamson  ^  .  ^f    ._,       ,  Dec.  8,  1904. 

■»T        ■««•••         TIT     ^1  Mrs.  Lizzie  Blanche 

Mrs.  Miriam  Martha  admitted  on  profession 

Danner  t    v  n     ^t    t?    ^u-     t.  Jo^i"  Flynn 

T  „       ir    •         ■««•  T->  Isabelle  M.   Frothingham '    ^^.     „     . 

James   Ewmg,    M.D.  S  1   "     A    H     M  Lottie   Spring 

Mrs.   Fannie   S.   Gardner,?'       ,,  '     „.,  .    '  Gladys   Munroe  Brown 

r.    -D-       -v  Mrs.    May   White  ■,  ,       -r, 

D.  Rice  Kempner  M  C  11  h  ^°        Bowie   Martin 

Mrs.   Anna   C.    Kenpner  .  _  ^  Vivian  Elise  Pabst 

■nT         A  -n     1  Agnes  Leona   Owen  „,  _   ,,,.       „       , 

Mrs.   Agnes  Paul  ^^^,      .       ^,     „  ,    ,  Chester  DeWitt  Pugsley 

r-  A     o  i_    i  Katherine  Ida  Schulz  „  t^       ,         x^ 

George  A.   bchastey  Grace  Burnham  Rogers 

Mrs.  Alice  Beggs  admitted  by  certificate  E;va  Rich  Wardell 

Schastey  Mrs.   Violetta  Hawthorne 

Otto  J.  Schneider  Bissell  admitted  by  certificats 

Mrs.   Esther  M.  Schwab  Corwin   Black  Ja^^es  Allen 

Elizabeth  R.  Smillie  Mrs.  Jane  Frazer  Black    Margaret  Allen 

Jessie   B     Smillie  Mrs.  Marion  McCosh         J^mes  Allen,  Jr. 

Daniel  M.  Thomas  Edmund  L.   Dow,  M.D.    Esther  Allen 

Herbert  R.  Fullenwider    William  Allen 
Mar.  10,  1904.  Elias  J.  Herrick  Mrs.  Annie  Allen 

admitted  on  profession  Mrs.  Margaret  L.  Sarah  Chambers 

Edwin  F.  Marshall  Herrick  Mary  Clark 

Elizabeth  Spring  -q    Raymond  Hoobler         Estelle   M.    Clark 

Alice   Reich  jaj^gg  gga^s  McCulloh      "^'e"  Carrington 

Rose    Gosker  Charles  Samson  Hutcheson 

Gracie  Brosang  Annie  G.  Stabb  Mrs.  Marie  C.  Hall 

Robert  Bryce  Mcllivanie   Knight 

Louisa  Link  Apr.  17,   1904.  Ida  May  Knight 

Mrs.   Hermina   Dittrich      admitted  on  profession  John  Horton  Lee 
Ernest   Reichman  Anna   F.    Kopke  Maria  Lagie 

J.  Horner  Nelson  Anna  M.   Simunek  Clara  L-   McMurtry 

Mrs.    Mary  Homburger  Florence   E.   Matheson 

Henrietta    C.    Notzelman  May  ^7,  1904.  John  T.  Nubel 

William    M.    G.    Witte        admitted  on  profession  Elizabeth  M.  Thompson 
John   W.    Reichart  Margaret  Agnes  JohnstonMiriam    T.    Wilson 


jFiftI)  aijenue  presfipterian  Cfiurcf) 


279 


Jan.  5,  1905.  Apr.  7,  1905.  Mary  Arganza 

ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  Linden  Wallace  Bates, 


Harry  C.  C.  Burgess 
Henry   Hermann 
Herman  Rasch 
Mary  Haas 
Margaret  Linke 
Anna  Helen  Bradae 
Philip  Clague 
Charles  Fox 
Charles  Benedict  Adler 
Mary  Adler 

Feb.  JO,  1905. 

ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  Mrs.  Emily  M.  Jewell 
Thomas   Sloane   Barnes     Christina   Nelson 
Charles  B.  Gunn  Helen  Neypher 

Helaine  Magnus  Ruby  Rees 

Jesse  McConnell  joj^  k.  Fatosian 

Sarah  Mildred  McCulloh  John   Tonnele 
Margaretta  Williams  Kathrina  Tonnele 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Alice  Widney  Traver 


William  T.   Brown 
Annie  T.  Brown 
Samuel  A.  Bulloch 
Annie  Darner 
Clara  Douglas 
Mrs.   Sophia   P.   Gunn 
Mrs.   Susette  McWalty 

Harley 
William  Sloane  Inglis 
Sarah  L,.  Meeks  Inglis 
Herman  Waller  Kurz 
Esther  M.   Moore 
Edwin   C.  McWalty 
Walter  G.  Owen 
Dagmar  H.  Owen 
Albert  J.  Pitkin 
Annie  Clarke  Pitkin 


Elizabeth  Bancroft  PitkinJ°hn  W.   Blood 


Albertina  Lane  Pitkin 
John   Stewart 
Jane  E.  Stewart 
Dr.  James  P.  Tuttle 


Joanna  Russell  Jr. 

Auchincloss  Gertrude  Eleanor 

Mrs.   Edna  Loew  Brokaw  Fraenkel 

John  S.  Eggleston  Caroline  Lee  Mills 

Agnes  Masher  Margaret    Juliet     Shearer 

Anna  Boardman  Randall  Mrs.  Mabel  Stone 
George  Mulford  Randall  John  H.   Van  Culin 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATB  ADMITTED  BY  CERTIPICATB 

Mrs.  Anna  Cowdery  Sophia    Carr 

Howard  C.  Brokaw  Mehran  Chakmakjian 

Hugh  Hamilton  Getty       James  W.   Harle 
Mrs.  Florence  May  Getty  Mrs.  Julia  Coffin  Harle 
James  W.   Harle,  Jr. 
Jennie  Maud  McKee 
Benjamin  P.  Moore 
Mrs.  Mary  Varnum  Mott 
Harriet  Taylor 

Oct.  12,  igos. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Mrs.  Ida  Zimmerman 
Martin  Paulson 
Wm.  Fred.  Henry  Ralf 
Mrs.  Emma  H.  C.  A. 

Ralf 
Charles  Ireland   Stark 
Jeannette  Stark 
Catherine  Walter 
May  Josephine  Wellech 
Elsie  H.  Schoenborn 
Louise  Ama  Roth 
Walter  Averill 
Charlotte   Hamilton 

Fullarton 
Marie  Louise  Inglis 
Evelyn  Sloane  Inglis 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATS 

Frances  Griffiths 
James  Aitken  Harrar 
Claries  Herman 
Walter  Graham 

Nov.  9,  1905. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Ellen  Harrison 


Guido  Henri  VonRossum 
May  II,  1905. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Valentione 

Hengstenbergh 
Lusey  T.  Burkart 
Adele   Brown 
William   Staubach 
Emily  R.  Pritchard 
Christopher   Hansen 
Anna  Haubert 
Robert  Manck 
Felix  Witte 
Mana    Stroka 
May  Kozesnik 
Elizabeth  Miller 


Mrs.  Minnie  Blood 
Henry  Kohla 
Oscar  Veib 
John  C.  Rassbad 
May  Nory 


Mar   g    1905  admitted  by  certificaTS 

Lizzie    Tones  Albert  August  William 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSIONS'""^    Jones 

Frank  M.   McNaught  Oetgen 

Mrs.  Dora  C.  McNaught  Catherine  Evers 
Mrs.  Mary  Schaefer  Charles  Louis  Wissmaa 

Mrs.   Emily  Pauline 
May  2S,   1905.  Mansfield 


Edward  J.  Klagiss 
John  Pavlis 
Alfred   Schmidt 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATS 

May  A.  Murray 
Hannah  Cadwalader 


ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION    ADMITTED  BY  CERTlPICATS 

Albert  Beier  Phoebe  E.  Marshall 


28o  Centennial  Celebration  of  tjbe 


Mrs.  Louisa  M.  Wissman  admitted  by  certificate  Hannah  Bolz 

Albert   Oetgen  Clementine  Bonne  Lillie   Roth 

Mrs.    Augusta    Oetgen        Thomas  H.  Burton  William   John    Crozier 

Wilhelmina  Oetgen  Annie    Jane    Curran  Albert  Rice 

Herman  Oetgen  Elmer  C.  Griffith  Robert  Thistle 

Mrs.  Lucy  S.   Griffith  Edward  J.   M.   Froehner 

Dec.  8.  1903.  ^^j.^  j_    jj^j.j  Hannah  Getzein 

ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  ^^^^_  j^^^^  Heiscman  George  J.   Schmitt,  Jr. 

Gertrude    F.   A.   Erbsloh  ^^^^  ^^^^  ^    jj^^.^^  (.^^^^^  j    Schmitt 

Francis  J.   C.   Lee  qj-^^^.   jjumphrey  Louis   Megvog 

Emma  L.  Ross  j^^       ^_   Stavely  Margaret   McGiegan 

John   T.    Winkhaus 
Dr.  Harold  S.  Vaughan  Feb.  18,   1906.  May  25,   1906. 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATS    ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION    ADMITTED    ON    PEGFESSION 

Mrs.   Sara  C.  Vaughan      M"-    Margaret    Holden  Anna  L.   Stolzenburg 

M     E     Beall  ^^''*-  -^""'^  Graham  admitted  by  certificate 

Mary  S.   Conover  Charles  Duttweiler  m.  Louise  Beaty 

Jennie   DeLacy  '^^^-  Margaret  C.  Bensonoavid   Bell 

Minnie  English  ^rs.  Ida  Camph  Robert   Bell 

Rudolph   Erbsloh  O^'a  Winchester  Gustave  H.  Brevillier 

Mrs.  Fannie  E.   Erbsloh  Mabel  Wiley  Williams  Dunlop 

Jannie  Hemline  Louise  Benson  Mrs.  Eliza  Kuhl  Hughes 

Margaret  C.  Mahon  j^ar.  8,  1906.  ^^""^   Asenath  Jones 

Dr.  Samuel  Murtland         admitted  on'  profession  Nathaniel  Morrow 

Mrs.  Anna  A.  Murtland  j^j^s.  Anna  Haubert  Mrs.  A.  Annie  Morrow 

Dr.  Alfred  Schek  Mrs.  Mamie  Leehr  Elizabeth   Bassett   Wilson 

Lizzie  Taylor  August   Wm.   Winters  Qct.  is,   1906. 

Harriet  Thrall  John   Boyce  admitted'  on'  profession 

Dec.  24,  1905.  Clement  John  Koukol  William  Henry  Clark 

ADMITTED  BY  cERTiFlCAtg  Charles  Link  May    Brucker 

Matthew  J.   Caldwell  Peter  Kessler  Richard   Dittrich 

Ferdinand   L.    Bulscher  jjenry   Rudolf 
Jan.   II,   1906.              ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Esstenheim 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Q^^t^^jg    Bernvose  Clara   Habetta 

James  Fleming  ^^^-^  jj^,!^^ 

Feb    8    1006  ^'''  ^'  Robert  William  Kramek 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION   tt„„,„    To    „K    l\r.,o  = 
ADMITTED   OX   PROFESSION  ^^^^^.^^   Auchincloss  f '"'^  Jf  °?    ^^^^' 

Elsie  Krauz  ^^^  ^  it  Margaret  Clemmens 

Anna  M.   Neu  t  u      tr  c.  *  Schmitt 

.....  ^"''^     T-""       7  A"ton  Walker 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Edgar  Eginton   Stewart      .       .     ^  ,,r     j. 

T  I       tr     c„i,^,.  ^     ,     ■  ,    ^    ,Tr     .  Annie  Jessup  Woodin 

John   H.    Scheu  Frederick  C.  Wacheron     ,,,.,,.         „      u       nf 

■n/r        17       T    c„i,„,.  William  Dunbar  Morrow 

Mrs.   Eva   1.   bcneu  admitted  by  certificate 

Mrs.  Abigail  Wade  r)r.   Fergus  F.  Carr  admitted  by  certificate 

Jessie  Wade  *       Harris  J^^^s  Forrett 

Edward  Wade  Walter  F.  Diack  Charles   Taylor 

Feb.  9,   1906.  J"*^"  Hunter  j^g^.  6,   1906. 

ADMITTED  ON   PROFESSION  ^^'P*^  ^-  ^-    McGregor    admitted  on  profession 
Elizabeth   Mary  Brown     Eleanor  M.  Pendleton       Evelyn  Loretta  Carroll 
Carrie  Carll  Xanthe  S.  Parker  Margaret  Elizabeth 

John  Trail  ^^^-  Camilla  H.  Manch 

Gerhart    C.   Hesseman  Stewart  gdwin  H.  Manch 

John   Butler  Jessup  Apr.  15,   1906.  Caroline   Schmitt 

Annie  C.  Thompson  admitted  on  profession  Frederika  J.  Winters 

Jennie  Lyle   McKinney     Irene  Flynn  Charles  William  Hyer 


jFifti)  avienue  pre$tipterian  Cfturci) 


281 


George  H.   Schmick 
Agnes  Jane  Brodic 
Jeannie  Glen  Keith 
Jean   Miller 
Isabella   Alexander 
Murtland 


Dr.   J.  A.   Tonner 
Bertha  Gray   Webster 
Ida  M.  Wharton 
Ella  H.  White 
Helen   White 
Wilbert   W.    White,   Jr. 


Bessie  Lindsay   Stormont  E.    Bright  Wilson 
Mary  Jane  Mitchell 


Orin  C.   Baker 
Alice   F.   Baker 
Esther   Griffin    Ely 
Adelaide   E.   Grant 
Martin   L,.    Lee 

ADMITTED  BV  CERTIFICATE 

Mrs.   Mary  Jane  Mitchell 
Elizabeth   M.    Mitchell 
Margaret   M.    Mitchell 
Marion    Beveridge    Lee 
Thomas  McKay 
Alma    Durant   Nicolson 
George   E.   Provost 
Brainard    Rorison 
Mary  V.   Rorison 
Arda  Bates  Rorison 
Marabel   Rorison 
Mary  Thomson 
Adam   Valentine 
Mrs.   Clara  K.   Powell 

Dec.  7,  1906. 


Mar.  J,  1907. 


ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATS 
Osborn    M.    Billings 
Harriet   R.   Billings 
James  W.  Cairns 
Ida  R.   Cairns 
Emma  L.   Curtis 
Margaret  Lockhart 
Eliza  Mae  Herlie 
Cyprian  Preston 


ADMITTED  ON   PROFESSION  Martha  Stewart 

Mrs.   Amelia   M.    RosberyAlexander  M.    Stewart 


Rose   Olga   Slanar 
Emma   Caroline    Slanar 
Henry  Joseph  Paul 
Mayback 


Emily    Elizabeth    Stewart 
Elizabeth    Sturrock 
William   Vosburgh 
Mary  S.   Woodward 


Elizabeth  Holt  Clark 
John    Cooper 
Winifred  M.  Forsyth 
Elise  Hoffman 
Rosa   Belle   Holt 
Thomas  Lyons 
Agnes  Melrose 
DeWitt  C.  Parshall 
Addie    Patterson 
ADMITTED  ON   PROFESSION  j^j^^^  ^.^^  Patterson 
Lcshe  A.  Gillette  g,j^  p_  g^j^^j^^ 


June  6,   ipo7. 

ADMITTED    ON     FKOFESSION 

John   Dunn 
William   Flanagan 
John   Flanagan 
ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICAM  Minnie  Langhorst 


April  12,  1907. 

ADMITTED    ON     PROFESSION 

C.    Stockton    Halsted 
Katherine  McCook 


Bertha  R.   Smith 


Jan.  10.   1907. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Mrs.   Millie   Burgess  May  23,   1907. 

Louise    Cooper    Getzein       admitted  on   profession 
Margaret   Lertha   Foester  Dorothea   Booker 
Mabel  Grover  Paul  Bertha   Booker 

Philip  Maas  Emily   J.   W. 

Robert  Watson  Main  MacCambridge 

John  Mengler 
Mary  Paukner 

admitted  on   pROFEsnoN  Richard  Henry  C.   Ritter  ^°^^  McDowell 
Ellen    Stuart  Helen  Lila   Ritter  ^^-   J^y  Mersercau, 

William  Culyer  Josephine    Schiffert  _    M.D. 

admitted  by  certificate  Frank   Smolak  Jennie   M.   Permc 

Caroline   Burford   DannerLillian   Buchart  Endora   Symington 


Feb.  7,   1907. 


Mildred  Xylander 
Eva   Staubach 
Florence  Victre 
AlTena  Hermann 

Oct.  10,  1907. 

admitted  on  profession 
Norma  M.   Ferguson 
Gilbert   Forbes 
Anna   Cobb  Hallock 
Florence  May  Thurber 
Lillie  Bayer 
Christian  Halsey 

admitted  by  CERTIHCAT3 
Horace  R.   Baker 
Edwin  F.  Eadie 
Sarah   Bingham   Ferguson 
Lucinda  Hamilton 
Madge   Libbey   Hoobler 
Carl   P.   Lawrence 
Wilber  McBride 


Lillian   Cowan 
Adelaide   Brown   Fitch 
Caroline    J.    Howell 
Solomon  W.  Johnson 
Christina   McEwan 
Elizabeth  Patterson 
Annie  Rea 
Mary   Rea 


admitted  by  certificate 
Carrie  Josephine  Haubert' 


Morris  Edward  Farber 
Julius  Shaw  Weingart 
Edith    Caroline   Wilcox 
Malcolm  L.  Wishart 


May  24,  1907. 
admitted  on   profession  Dec.  5,   1907. 

Alice   Emden  admitted  on  profession 

David   Morrison,    Jr.  Robert   H.    Burns 

Ottomar    H.    VanNorden  Schreiner  Cunier 


282 


Centennial  Celetitation  of  tU 


Antoinette   Julien 
William  Kuntz 
Annie   Miller 
John   Ryan 
Carl  Steen 
Pearl  Cleveland 
Walter  Kerr 
Irene  M.  Lehn 
Adelaide    Morningstar 


Annie   Catherine  Johnson 
Walter   Henry   Merritt 
Andrew   McCutcheon 
Elsie  Pabst 
Ni  Wah  Soon 
Charlotte  Spooner 
Annie  West 
William  Wagner 
Conrad  Wagner 
Ernest  Atthaus 


Beatrice   Alexandra 

Fosburgh 
Augusta  Girod 
Christine  Koerner 
Ellen   McGee 
Mary  Miller 
Joseph  Schaeffer 
Adam  S.  Turnbull 
Elsie  Eagan 

Florence  Knickol  admitted  by  certificats 

Theresa  Mackay  Richard   Davis   Anderson  Charles  Knoblock 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATS  Dr.   Walter   R.   Bruyere     Charlotte   Rettig 
Robert  L.   Fosburgh  Louis  N.   Bruyere  Elizabeth    Luhrs 

Esther  Fosburgh  Mrs.    Grace  Ward   Diack  Sophie   Carlson 

Esther  L.  Fosburgh  Paul  Gerhard  Lillian   Barnes 

James  B.  A.  Fosburgh       Elsie   Elderkin  Gallaudet  Pauline  L.  William* 
Harvey  G.   Furbay,   M.D.Margaret   E.   Hallenbeck  Mrs.  Margaret  Bird 
William   Gordon,   M.D.     Wilbur  Chapman 
Mary  Wallace  Gordon  Hallenbeck 

Edith    Virginia    Keister      Jennie   Henry 
Kenneth  McCaskill  Walter   S.   Huffman 

Helen   Howell  Moorhead  Annie  Jenkins 
Lindsay   Russell  Stella  Edna  Johnston 

Wm.   L.   Hope  Simpson    Dr.  Charles  E.  McPeek 
James  C.   Stewart  Wilbert  B.   Smith 

Amelia  C.   Stewart  Walter  W.  Wood 

Fannibell   Stewart  Elizabeth  J.  Wood 

James  B.   Stewart  May  C.  Wood 


Mabel  Adams   Thompson  Walter   W.  Wood,  Jr. 


Bettie  Yoakum 
Katheryne    Yoakum 
Bessie  Yoakum 

Feb.  6,  igdS. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Mary  Crocker  Alexander 
Henry  Edward  Gaham 

Cooke 
Faye  Campbell  Furbay 
Helen  Blanche  Furbay 
Alfred  Geery 
Elizabeth   Irving  Geery 
Philip  Caryl  Jessup 
Mary  Mackay 
Harriet  McCook 
Livingston   Piatt 
Saleem  G.  Tabet 
Florence  Emily 

Underwood 
Elizabeth  Bell 
Paul   Dahlman 
Martha   Dahlman 
Harry  Hayden 
Philip   Hofer 
Elsie  Heubner 


Bessie   Abbott 
Leo  Evans 
Mary  Graham 

Mar.  5,  /po*. 

ADMITTED   ON    PKOFESIIOK 

Florence  M.  Mclndoo 
Damiella   I.   Fee 
Elizabeth   Schindler 
Mildred  A.  Hubert 
Leonhard  H.  Barkhardt 
Mrs.   Hilda  W.  Hayden 
Lillian    Porter 
Martha   Neubauer 
Inga  Margaret  Paulson 
Annie  Louise  Knoblock 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Mrs.  Elsie  Kobstedt 
Mrs.   H.  Agnes  Phillips 
Mrs.  Charlotte  Kott 


Mrs.   Nettie  Townsend 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATS 

Stanley  A.  Allen 
Edward  E.  Marriott 
Mrs.  Matilda  Marriott 
Chu  Faie  Long 
Charles  S.  Pearson 
Mrs.  Mary  Mae  Dougall 

Scott 
W.    John    Strain 
John  G.   Thome 
Eugenia  Torrence 
W.   Everitt  Van  Wert 
Mrs.    Maude   Cleveland 

Van  Wert 
Van  Ogden  Vogt 
Irving  E.  Ziegler 
May  28,  190S. 

ADMITTED    ON    FKOFESSION 

Joseph  Cabus 

Mrs.   Matilda  Coleman 

Cecil 
Frederick   Leopold   Lyon 
George   Bayer 
Josephine   Benes 
Phillip   Block 
Mrs.   Minnie   Fee  Budd 
Minnie   Dittrich 
Jeanettc   Dobias 
Jesse    Edwards 
Antonia   Elian 
Josephine  Espenhain 
Henry   Froehner 


Apr.  g,  igoS. 
ADMITTED  ON  PROFESSION  Jacob  Goetz 
Annie   Marguerite   BrownErnest   Graepel 
Mary  Alice  Brown  Mollie  Hajeck 

Choy  Ching  Mamie   Handwerker 

Martha  Jane   English        Otto  Van  Howe 


iFiftJ)  atjenue  Pteisliptetfan  Cfjutcj) 


283 


Lawrence  Jiminei  Virginia  Barnett 

Mrs.  Annie  Kuklis  Ethel  Edwards 

Anna    Belle    Livingstone  Henry  Bartunek 


Florence   Margaret 

Miroude 
Pauline  Novak 
Frederick  Wm.   Oetgen 
Pauline  Pavlis 
Richard  Zimmerman 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATK 

William   R.   Williams 
Mrs.   Carrie  Canta 

Burton 
William  Rabb  Craig 
Minnie    McElroy 
Minnie  Eraser 
George  S.  Hart 
Mrs.   Frances  Wheeler 

Hart 
J.   Frederick  Lockwood 
Frank  Latham  McKee 
J.  Myrta  Newbury 
Christian   Bock 


Frank  Chaka 
Emil   Fillipec 
Frederick  Goetz 
Arthur  Hess 
Rose   Koerner 
Mrs.  Louis  Hofer 
Pauline  Hofer 
Henrietta   Hofer 
Helen   Schaaf 
Fred.   Wrobel 
Rose  Wrobel 
George  E.  Bolz 
Margaret  Bolz 
Gustave  W.  Luhrs 
George   Rice 
Minnie   Roth 
Florence  Standinger 

Nov.  8,  1908. 

ADMITTED   ON    PROFESSION 

Paul  Neubauer 
Louis  Boda 


Oct.  8.  1908. 
ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE  Alfred   Favor 
Dora   Martha   Anderson    Mary   Rose 


Marian  Childs 
Elizabeth    Connolly 
Roy  Elton   Fouts 
Hattie  A.   Gurney 
H.  R.  Klopp 
Andrew  Milligan 
James  Blanden 
Catherine  Blanden 
Kitty  Blanden 


Emma  Bormer 
Lena   Brunette 
Rose  Charvat 
Mary  Charvat 
Margaret  Garton 
Daniel   Girod 
Marion    Girod 
FreHericka  Mclndoo 
Henry   Millar 


ADMITTED  ON   PROFESSION  Elizabeth   Meloun 
Hugh  Clelland  Emma  Meloun 


Ida  Miroude 
Mary  Pavlis 
John   Rendall 
Rose  Schaffer 
Camilla  Slanar 
Anna  Smolak 

Dec.   28,    1908. 

ADMITTED    ON    PROFESSION 

Olive    Star    Alexander 
Aristotle     Herbert 

Alexander 
Henrietta  Rolason 
Miles    Fleetwood    Gordon 
Elfrida    F.    Bauman 
Mary  J.   Bell 
Josephine   M.    Gleason 

(Mrs.    William) 
William    Kenneth 

Gilderson 
Jennie  McCullough 
John  Maul 
Angus   Duncan 

Robertson 
Aline    M.    Wilson 

(Mrs.   W.   H.) 

ADMITTED  BY  CERTIFICATE 

Mrs.   Salvina  Boss! 
Robert    Arthur    Bryant 
George  S.    Bruyere 
Margaret  Gillis 
Zophar   L.    Howell 
Anna   Belle   C.    Howell 

(Mrs.   Z.   L.) 
Mrs.  Margaret  Hyslop 
Henrietta   Hyslop 
Blanche   G.    Lark 

(Mrs.    Charles   T.) 


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